Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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But among thousands of apparently unrelated bits of "news" last week were two items as closely related as the horns of a dilemma. One was that the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission is going to establish a testing ground for atomic weapons somewhere in the Pacific. The other was a sentence...
At 9:30 a black sedan with Government license plates pulled into the rear parking lot. Out stepped a tall, tanned man with a brown manila envelope under his arm. At the basement reception desk he dutifully presented his rectangular badge, bearing his picture and name: David Lilienthal, Chairman of...
...past year, 793 Government employees have been fired for disloyalty to the U.S. This was the estimate last week of the Civil Service Commission, which reported that quiet investigations had also flushed out 18 other "disloyal" jobholders, who resigned. Civil Service Commissioner Arthur Flemming estimated that before the investigations were over, about 3,200 of the Government's 2,000,000-plus employees would be tagged as disloyal. The report did not define the shades of disloyalty. The War Department alone gave a hint: 158 of the 190 civilian employees it had fired were "ineligible for employment for disloyalty...
Following his lead, Washington last week asked ten fellow members* on the Far Eastern Commission to begin work on a peace treaty for Japan. To speed up the negotiations the U.S. wanted to sacrifice the Big Power veto, decide treaty issues a two-thirds majority. The Russians might not participate...
Red, Not Yellow. By the third round, it seemed as if Graziano was to be spared the unpleasantness of seeing the terrible things that were happening to him. After a flurry of Zale punches had sent him down for no count, his right eye was closed to a slit, his...