Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the commission met Nov. 13 for its lead-off inspection at the Oak Ridge plant, Chairman David Lilienthal did not quite know how to begin the proceedings. Finally, with determined offhandedness, he said: "Well, I guess we might as well start."
Solemnly & silently the commissioners looked at each other. Then Chairman Lilienthal cleared his throat and spoke the thoughts of all five commission members: "I have taken the oath of office several times before in my. life, but the last four words never had the meaning to me they have today. So I'd just like to begin by repeating them-'So help...
¶ Appointed a nine-man commission to draft a U.S. peacetime universal training plan. The chairman, chosen by the commission members: Massachusetts Institute of Technology President Karl T. Compton.
End of an Era. While the committeemen listened dutifully to Candidate Kennelly's acceptance speech, they thought about his record. He had started out as a $2-a-week Marshall Field employe, had risen to the top of Allied Van Lines, Inc. and of the Werner-Kennelly warehouse company...
In his desire for an immediate showdown vote on the U.S. plan for atomic control, Bernard Baruch last week found a majority of the twelve nations in the U.N.'s Atomic Energy Commission against him. Thereupon, after months of inflexible diplomacy, he made his first concession.