Word: boardmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...besides the former T.V.A. administrator, a physicist, a banker, an editor and a government bureaucrat. By law they are required to devote all their working hours to the atom problem. Except for Lilienthal and Sumner Pike, a former member of the Securities and Exchange Commission, none of the new boardmen has had experience in governmental activity. It would be disastrous, after wresting the power of the atom out of the hands of the Army, to put it in the hands of a logrolling candidate of Senator McKellar's choosing...
...Specification. To the biased glance, the price decisions seemed a studied compromise. They were-and they were not. Boardmen Roy Thompson, George Mead and Daniel W. Bell, who had bravely picked up the coals hot-handled them by Congress last July, had followed congressional standards in determining recontrol. The standards: 1) the price of a commodity must have risen unreasonably since June 30; 2) the commodity must be in short supply; 3) its regulation must be enforceable; 4) its recontrol must serve the public interest. These standards, in some respects political, in all respects loosely phrased, were Congress...
Inactive since the opening Tuft's meet before the Christmas vacation period, Coach Jaako Mikkola's boardmen will swing into action tomorrow afternoon in a relay meet against Rhode Island State in Briggs Cage...
...service. Penalty for willful failure to "tell your local draft board" is the same as for any other violation of the Selective Training and Service Act: imprisonment up to five years, fines up to $10,000, or both. In practice, reprimands will serve for first, minor infractions (unless boardmen and courts are unco-testy...
...Shooter William Leiserson forced the Board to examine its own efficiency. Four NLRB regional directors studied the evidence for 60 days, in October severely indicted the Board's administrative methods, policies, machinery, recommended specific changes, many of them aimed at unpopular Secretary Witt. OverDr. Leiserson's protest, Boardmen Edwin S. Smith and J. Warren Madden pigeonholed the report...