Word: chairman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...misstatements") in Huie's first Digest article. 3) Collier's found "no basis" for six statements in Huie's football article. It printed an apology: "A serious injustice [to] the University of Alabama ... we sincerely regret its publication." 4) Both the FBI and Senator Brien McMahon, chairman of the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy, said they were satisfied with AEC's account of the recovery of almost all the missing uranium...
Gray, who had been made Under Secretary only two weeks earlier, was the President's second choice for Secretary. Harry Truman's first candidate, Curtis Calder, the $75,000 board chairman of Electric Bond & Share Co. and a Truman campaign contributor, turned the job down...
...Frankfurt last week came the kind of story that more & more headlines are made of: the Army had investigated TVA Chairman Gordon R. Clapp, and found him unfit for a temporary occupation job in Germany. The officer who leaked the story would not let his name be used, but he was willing to make a few large remarks under the protection of anonymity. ". . . Why would he be permitted to remain as head of TVA?" he asked. "I think it is a terrible situation and ought to get an airing...
...Capitol, Tennessee's ancient and irascible Senator Kenneth McKellar faced ECA Administrator Paul Hoffman, who had been reported by the morning papers as saying he would resign if the Senate cut any more of the $3.5 billion which the House had allotted ECA for 1950. Said McKellar, chairman of the Appropriations Committee: "Other than giving away other people's money, I wonder what you are doing in Europe ... I think it would be the best thing for the people of the U.S. and Europe if you did resign . . . Why you sent a lobbyist to my hotel this morning...
...cavalcade of jeeps with 60 Seoul police rattled up to the headquarters of the Korean National Assembly's Special Committee on National Traitors. Disarming guards, they stormed through the building, grabbing documents and arms and arresting the committee's special police. When the committee's chairman tried to stop them, the head of the raiders snapped, "We do this on the personal orders of President Rhee...