Word: aec
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...AEC Chairman Strauss and Oppenheimer have a professional relationship besides the atom: Oppenheimer is director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton; Strauss is president of its board of trustees...
...Oppenheimer was represented (without fee) by the Manhattan firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison and by Herbert Marks, onetime general counsel for the AEC. Famed Constitutional Lawyer John W. Davis, fresh from his defeat in the school segregation cases, joined in writing an appeal brief to the AEC, which has final jurisdiction in the case...
...Notable exception: Columnists Joseph and Stewart Alsop, long-standing Oppenheimer partisans. They implied that Gordon Gray's findings were part of a plot by AEC Chairman Strauss to even an old personal grudge against Oppenheimer, a point that conveniently overlooked the matter of Gray's record and integrity...
...appointed Secretary of the Army by President Harry S. Truman. An intellectual, liberal Democrat, Gray is a poor target for critics who contend that there was an anti-intellectual basis for the decision that Oppenheimer is a security risk. His brief description of his job as chairman of the AEC board: "The most difficult assignment I ever...
...walk a quarter of a mile to the village store to wire his refusal, changed his mind on the way, accepted. He retired as chairman of Loyola's chemistry department in 1951, but stayed on in an advisory capacity. Evans, who has served in a number of AEC loyalty-security cases in the past five years, describes himself as a "rock-ribbed Republican" who voted for Franklin Roosevelt in 1932 "and has regretted it ever since." He expresses a strong faith in the individual and his right to make mistakes. Said he: "The FBI has investigated me, too. They...