Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After the war, Democrat Harry Truman named Republican Strauss to the brand-new Atomic Energy Commission under Chairman David Lilienthal. Strauss soon started finding himself on the minority end of 4-to-1 AEC decisions. Unable to persuade his fellow AEC commissioners to set up a system to detect Soviet atomic tests, he sidestepped them by taking his case to friends at the Pentagon. When the detection system, set up at Strauss's urging, picked up radiation from the Soviet Union's first atomic explosion in September 1949, Strauss, proven man of scientific foresight, set off another minority...
Strauss's five years as chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission resounded with an endless rumble of controversy. The wounding wrangle that followed the suspension of Physicist Oppenheimer's security clearance made Lewis Strauss many an unforgiving enemy among the nation's scientists. Conservative Strauss angered champions...
Yet almost from Strauss's first days as head of the Atomic Energy Commission, Anderson complained that Strauss deliberately withheld information from the Joint Congressional Committee, thereby evading his responsibility under the Atomic Energy Act to keep the committee "fully and currently informed" about AEC matters. Anderson was openly...
¶Creation of a Big Four commission to investigate specific complaints, Eastern or Western, over the use of both halves of Berlin as propaganda, subversion and espionage centers.
As police searched for Carbo last month, a Los Angeles fight promoter named Jackie Leonard went before the California Athletic Commission, put the finger squarely on Mr. Grey and his managerial sidekick, a Philadelphia hoodlum named Frank ("Blinky") Palermo. Leonard had promoted most of the key fights of Welterweight Champion...