Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...headed for the courts. Armed with a 14-page legal opinion, the Atomic Energy Commission last week announced that it does not consider the contract "an obligation which can be recognized by the U.S." The AEC's reason: questions have been raised about whether the contract violated the conflict-of-interest laws. The questions are based on the role of Investment Banker Adolphe H. Wenzell, who worked on the Dixon-Yates negotiations as 1) a part-time consultant to the U.S. Budget Bureau, and 2) a vice president of the First Boston Corp., which was to finance the project...
...Governor Adlai Stevenson, moved into the capitol. In 1949 Harry Truman put Hugh Cross on the bipartisan Interstate Commerce Commission; four months ago, the rotating chairmanship finally reached him. Last week, out in midfield at 59, Hugh Cross was caught in the latest congressional investigation of a conflict-of-interest case...
...holiday is shifted back to the 22nd, it will mean a conflict with the Harvard-Yale football game at Cambridge, Nov. 24. The game is usually played the weekend before Thanksgiving, but a conflict arises about twice in every fifteen years...
...activity of the State Department since then has been reflected in the work of the Historical Division. For the first time, it started to lose ground to the increasing mass of factual material which it was expected to systematize and to make public. World War II and the Korean conflict added to the burden. Consequently, the Division is now 15 years behind in its work, the most recent volume on foreign relations dealing with...
After Strobel was through testifying, GSA Chief Mansure told newsmen that he would let Strobel resign. Said Mansure: "Strobel has done nothing really wrong, but he just didn't use good judgment." He added that Strobel had not only put off signing the GSA's standard no conflict-of-interest pledge for half a year, but that it also took months to get a list of his firm's clients...