Word: compton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the committee closed down for the weekend, McCarthy was not yet done with the Voice. But already the hearings had sped the departure of Wilson Compton, head of State's International Information Administration, which includes the Voice. Onetime president of the State College of Washington, Dr. Compton* took over the I.I.A. a year ago, and proved to be no great shakes as an administrator. His own testimony before the committee showed amazingly little detailed knowledge of what was going on in the Voice. On the third day of the hearings, Secretary Dulles accepted Compton's resignation. Reported...
...Brother of Karl Taylor Compton. chairman of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Corp., Arthur Holly Compton, Nobel Prizewinner and chancellor of St. Louis' Washington University...
Last week, in the same squash court, surviving members of the early group of experimenters gathered to celebrate their success. Said their former director, Dr. Arthur Holly Compton, now chancellor of Washington University: "We who had the might of the atomic nucleus in our hands would have been traitors to mankind had we refused to build bombs and use them with tempered blows...
Says Nobel Prizewinner Harold C. Urey: "The difficulties in securing visas for foreign scientists .... threaten to make all satisfactory contact between American and European scientists impossible in the near future." Says Nobelman Arthur H. Compton, Chancellor of Washington University: "One of the greatest assets of the United States in the century past has been the freedom of our scientists -. . . to invite others to bring their ideas personally to us ... In a period when our welfare and safety depend on maintaining . . . leadership, it is of double importance that this freedom in the exchange of ideas be maintained...
...Albert Einstein. 2. Owen Lattimore. 3. Arthur Compton...