Word: aec
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...refused to include $4,000,000 for a steam generator to backstop TVA's water power in dry seasons. "A reckless and irresponsible decision," said the President, pointing out that TVA supplies power for the Oak Ridge atomic plant. He signed the bill to extend the terms of AEC commissioners for two years, but declared that "the refusal of the Republican leadership to put the public interest first. . . invests the atomic energy program with an aura of uncertainty and partisan politics." (He did not recall that he had set Republican teeth on edge by insisting that Chairman David Lilienthal...
...Extended the terms of AEC Chairman David Lilienthal and other AEC commissioners for two years...
Like other Congresses, the 80th had been petty on occasion, had politicked often. It had jammed through the wool bill, a piece of old-line protectionism which the President properly vetoed. The Senate's bitter fight over confirmation of AEC Chairman David Lilienthal had been no credit to the 80th Congress. The House had dragged its feet on foreign aid, twice had almost upset the applecart (with its vote to include Spain in ECA, its slash in ECA appropriations). No one was proud of the 15% "voluntary" rent-control bill. Action on housing and admission of D.P.s was long...
...final weeks of the Hoover administration, Democrats had sat on scores of Republican nominations. But playing politics with postmasters was one thing, playing politics with the nation's defense program was another. Both President and Congress were disturbing the peace and continuity of administration on which AEC and its contractors depend...
...nominate the rest of the AEC team for staggered terms: Sumner Pike, four years; Lewis Strauss, three; William Waymack, two; Robert Bacher...