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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Research and Development Board supervises the investigation of new war techniques and weapons for the government. The post was held until early November by former MIT President Karl T. Compton who retired because of ill health. Compton left MIT a year ago to take the post...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conant Refuses Leadership Of War Development Board | 11/26/1949 | See Source »

...position was offered had decided last spring after Compton had decided to resign. Conant was one of the leaders in the United States development of atomic energy and served from 1941 to 1946 as chairman of the National Defense Research Committee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conant Refuses Leadership Of War Development Board | 11/26/1949 | See Source »

...Arthur Compton chancellor of the university, says the exclusion of Shortliffe is "because of negligence or because of evidence that is kept secret...

Author: By David RIESMAN Jr., | Title: Shortliffe, "Liberal Socialist," Denied U.S. Visa | 10/4/1949 | See Source »

...July 27, Toronto vice consul Albert Stoffel replied to graham that no final decision had been made. Five days later, Chancellor Compton sent a telegram to FBI chief J. Edger Hoover, in another attempt to clear up Shortliffe's position...

Author: By David RIESMAN Jr., | Title: Shortliffe, "Liberal Socialist," Denied U.S. Visa | 10/4/1949 | See Source »

Chancellor Compton attested to this in his recent statement...

Author: By David RIESMAN Jr., | Title: Shortliffe, "Liberal Socialist," Denied U.S. Visa | 10/4/1949 | See Source »

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