Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the Displaced Persons Commission reported that the 80th Congress' Wiley-Revercomb law was just what Harry Truman had called it-"a pattern of discrimination and intolerance wholly inconsistent with the American sense of justice." The law, the commission declared, was "all but unworkable." Because of its restrictions...
The commission recommended that D.P.s be required only to give the assurance given by quota immigrants: that they would not become public charges.
Three weeks ago the Atomic Energy Commission cleared Frank Graham, President of the University of North Carolina, for important work at the Institute of Nuclear Studies in Oak Ridge. The decision reversed a recommendation of the Commission's own Security Office. It kicked up a load of complaints and charges...
Graham was originally blackballed by the AEC's Security Office because of his past association with "Communist front" groups. He had been active in many such organizations, most of which fought racial discrimination in the South and plugged for academic freedom. About two dozen of these appeared on Attorney-General...
"God of the Atom" has received the approval of the American Scientific Affiliation and the recommendation of the Atomic Energy Commission. It includes actual photographs of the atomic bomb explosions at Nagasaki and Bikini and of scientific apparatus used in atomic research.