Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Man on a Horse. It has been a long time since Washington's Public Health Service building has had more than a remote connection with public health. During the war it had been headquarters for the Combined Chiefs of Staff. Last week, as the headquarters of the Atomic Energy...
That was the essence of AEC's second biennial report last week. Besides staking out a new atomic testing ground somewhere in the Pacific (see The Nation), the commission had started a tremendous new construction program in the bomb works of Hanford. It was the beginning of a second...
Public Servant. Then in 1931 Wisconsin's Governor Phil La Follette asked him to join the state's public service commission. Lilienthal walked the streets of Madison all night, turning the offer over in his mind. Next morning he telephoned his wife, asked her advice and accepted the...
With these words the Russians last week rejected the U.S. proposal that work on a Japanese peace treaty be begun by the eleven nations of the Far Eastern Commission. The rejection caused no racing pulses in Washington. There was no sign that it would change U.S. plans to conclude a...
Meanwhile in Korea, where U.S. delegates had been saluted by parading leftists with clenched fists, Russians and Americans were still deadlocked in the Joint Commission. Peace for Korea was still remote. The possibility of political violence was imminent. Said a high U.S. official of this danger: "This is no longer...