Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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"[But] one permanent member of the Security Council has three times vetoed the efforts of the Council to deal with the situation. This Assembly cannot stand by as a mere spectator while a member of the United Nations is endangered by attacks. "The United States delegation will, therefore, submit to...
He dealt once again with atomic control. "The preponderant majority of the Atomic Energy Commission" had made far-reaching proposals for effective atomic control. "Two nations [Russia and Poland] have been unwilling to join the majority ... a disturbing and ominous fact. . . . Since the U.S. realizes fully the consequences of failure...
* The others: Mrs. Anna M. Rosenberg of New York, Regional Director of the War Manpower Commission, and Mrs. Mary Shotwell Ingraham of Brooklyn, one of the founders of the U.S.O. and women's adviser to the War Department.
As a Red Cross nurse in World War I, Elmira Bears (rhymes with cheers) put in months at nightmarish service in France. After the Armistice, she stayed on for seven months as chief nurse for Herbert Hoover's relief commission to Belgium. Back in the U.S., she continued her...
Curium can be made by bombarding plutonium with alpha particles, or americium with neutrons. Now that it has been isolated, the scientists working under the Atomic Energy Commission (the only ones privileged to play around with plutonium and its relatives) can try to build up an Element 97.