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Last week more than 100 atomic scientists gathered at Oak Ridge to confer not about bigger, more frightful bombs, but about the peaceful applications of nuclear physics. The big job now was to spread atomic know-how, make industrialists, educators and the public aware of the benefits atomic discoveries might bring...
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's President Nick Schenck, who had joyfully announced that company profits for the first ten months of this fiscal year were a whopping $12,579,245, recently finished the third of a series of two-week conclaves on the problem. Out from New York to confer with production heads went President Spyros Skouras of 20th Century, whose six-month divvy of $11,449,449 was 111% higher than last year...
Meatless citizens would mean voteless candidates. Shamelessly they passed a resolution directing Hannegan to confer with the Decontrol Board-which is supposed to be free of politics. The resolution did not state flatly that they were for McCormack's 60-day suspension, but that was the majority sentiment. They telephoned the White House and told a presidential aide about...
Then the message came; Harry Truman summoned him-buf not a moment too soon. In the excitement someone at the White House typed the announcement that the President would confer that afternoon with "Mr." Charles O'Neill (head of the northern mine operators) and the "Hon." John Lewis. Triumphantly, the Hon. John Lewis acted. As he had once ruined Franklin Roosevelt's show by proclaiming the end of a strike 15 minutes before Roosevelt went on the air to castigate him, he now spoiled Harry Truman's show. Three hours before he was due at the White...
Senator Ball added a cogent argument: "What the Senator from Florida proposes is that we strip ourselves of the only real military power we still possess, the atomic bomb, and then confer with Russia about future security and peace. We might enter such a conference with clean hands, but . . . we would enter it committed in advance by our own impotence to a policy of appeasement...