Word: bendetsen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Project of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund Inc. of New York. Co-signers of the Defense Report: Investment Banker Frank Altschul, vice president, Council on Foreign Relations; General (ret.) Frederick L. Anderson, commander of the Eighth Bomber Command in World War II; onetime Assistant Secretary of the Army Karl R. Bendetsen; President Detlev W. Bronk of the National Academy of Sciences; former Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Gordon Dean; Physicist James B. Fisk of Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc.; Investment Banker Bradley Gaylord; Lawyer Roswell L. Gilpatric, former Under Secretary of the Air Force; Investment Banker Townsend W. Hoopes; Johns Hopkins Administrative Officer...
Harry Truman, hopping mad, said in effect that the brotherhoods had broken their word, and reacted as Kennedy and Hughes had anticipated. The President seized the railroads; Assistant Secretary of the Army Karl Bendetsen was put in charge. Management, not the Government, would continue to manage the roads. But Kennedy and Hughes obviously expected that now they would eventually get what they wanted. In a Washington hotel suite, Will Kennedy pumped Boss Hughes's hand and crowed: "A tremendous victory...