Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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One day this week, 2½ years after Nagasaki, five men walked into the White House and laid before Harry Truman a 50,000-word document. They were members of a commission which he had appointed last July to write an air policy for the U.S. Their document, written in...
Phase II would come when the enemy was prepared. When would that be? "The conclusions of the Commission ... fix as the target date by which we should have an air arm capable of dealing with a possible atomic attack on this country at Jan. i, 1953. For convenience we will...
Appearing before them, W. (for William) Stuart Symington, the first Secretary of the first independent Air Force the U.S. has ever had, declared: "I do feel that the maintenance ... of peace in the world depends upon the strength of the United States." The commission agreed with him. The mere existence...
How willingly would American citizens shoulder the financial obligations of such proposals? The cost of peacetime security in a modern world has become a Sinbad's burden, exhausting and unshakable. The commission's proposals would mean a national outlay amounting to $82.46 per person in fiscal 1949, as...
The Trib labelled the Hutchins Commission on Freedom of the Press, on which three University professors served, as "unprecedented in the history of the United States for its assumption of privilege to encroach on the constitutional liberty of the American Press."