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...Young has the reputation of selecting able associates. He is a sailing enthusiast, a maker (and smoker) of fine briar pipes, and he has been called the best square-dance caller in New York's Herkimer County. The President said that Young would be elevated to Civil Service chairmanship as soon as the Senate confirmed the nomination, added that he would be invited to attend Cabinet meetings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: APPOINTMENTS: Taft Go Bragh | 3/23/1953 | See Source »

...even his fellow committee members were aghast at what he had actually said. The committee closed its doors and unanimously resolved that no new investigations would be announced or begun without approval of the full committee. Some Republicans in Congress were furious, and wanted to fire Velde from his chairmanship. Such talk ended abruptly when New York's Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. offered a formal resolution asking the House to censure Velde and kick him out of his job. Junior's resolution (which will doubtless die in the Rules Committee) made Velde a party issue, and Republicans quickly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: The Rookie Cop | 3/23/1953 | See Source »

...Congress' Joint Committee on Atomic Energy has been an effective board of directors for the U.S. atomic-energy program. But in the ten weeks of the 83rd Congress, the committee (nine Senators, nine Representatives) has been losing its grip. The reason: a Senate v. House deadlock over the chairmanship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Dangerous Deadlock | 3/23/1953 | See Source »

...committee. The first chairman, in the Republican 80th Congress, was Iowa's steady, hard-working Bourke B. Hickenlooper. In the Democratic 81st, Connecticut's yeasty Brien McMahon took over, to serve until he died last July. House members insist that there was an "understanding" that the chairmanship would alternate between the Senate and the House. (They let McMahon serve out of turn because he had sponsored the act establishing the committee.) Senate members don't seem to recall any such understanding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Dangerous Deadlock | 3/23/1953 | See Source »

Radcliffe President Wilbur K. Jordan reported yesterday that he has assumed the provisional vice-chairmanship of the newly formed American Council on N.A.T.O...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Annex President Accepts Post With Group Supporting NATO | 3/12/1953 | See Source »

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