Word: chairman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Witness Cedric R. Worth turned out to be a big, balding, 49-year-old bureaucrat in pince-nez glasses, a onetime Hollywood scripter, wartime Navy commander, and now a $10,305-a-year special assistant to the Under Secretary of the Navy. Chairman Vinson plunged right...
...evidence of corruption in the B-36 procurement program,* that neither Defense Secretary Louis Johnson nor Air Secretary Stuart Symington nor top Air Force officers had been guilty of impropriety in buying the Consolidated bomber, that it was "ridiculous" to say (as the anonymous statement had suggested) that Board Chairman Floyd Odium and the Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp. had contributed $6,500,000 to the Democratic campaign...
Another congressional outcry died in an embarrassed whisper. After three months of investigation the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy was still unable to find any evidence of the "incredible mismanagement" Senator Bourke Hickenlooper had charged up to the Atomic Energy Commission and its chairman, David Lilienthal (TIME, June 6). In fact, the committee members had gotten so apathetic that Chairman Brien McMahon was unable to round up a quorum even to declare the hearings officially ended...
...Practical Approach. Last week an advance guard of experts was already at work in Washington, examining a preliminary statement of Britain's situation furnished by London. Sir Stafford Cripps, who will be the British delegation chairman, secluded himself in his Gloucestershire home, jotted down neat notes (appropriately in red ink) from a pile of Treasury briefs that mounted during the week from 20 to 42. He was reported, among other things, to be weighing the chances and consequences of a further slash in U.S. imports to slow the alarmingly rapid drain of his country's dollar reserves...
Forty Percent? The big guns of the T.U.C., led by burly Chairman Sir William Lawther, wheeled up to support retrenchment. Trade union leaders prepared a report and a resolution which served up some bitter medicine for the rank & file (8,000,000 strong), who have been pressing for higher pay and other benefits. Salient points...