Word: davids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fault of Engineer Taft. He had put it together in the yards of the 80th Congress, where virtually every piece of major legislation had been given his boost or his boot. Frankly, loudly, obstinately and often, he had declared his stand. Some of his views (his opposition to David Lilienthal, to universal military training, to the State Department's Voice of America) had brought a storm of criticism. Other views (on the labor act, on tax-cutting) had won him both praise and condemnation. But nobody, friend or foe, could accuse him of not speaking his mind...
...black sedan with Government license plates pulled into the rear parking lot. Out stepped a tall, tanned man with a brown manila envelope under his arm. At the basement reception desk he dutifully presented his rectangular badge, bearing his picture and name: David Lilienthal, Chairman of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission...
...pine-paneled, second-floor office, surrounded by statues of the horses he loves, David Lilienthal was doing his best to sever the connection once & for all. He was trying, with every hope of success, to create the most destructive weapon in the world-an atomic bomb even bigger than the bomb which had wiped out Nagasaki and Hiroshima just two years...
...means abandoned all hope of international accord. In the U.N., U.S. Atomic Representative Frederick Osborn would continue to press the U.S. plan for international atomic control. But as long as Russia continued to block that plan, it was David Lilienthal's job to build the most destructive atomic weapon known to mankind...
Warshaw is one of a panel of three, including David Stearn 3L and Donald S. Connery '50, who have been beaming a weekly program for the past ten weeks over station WRUL to an estimated 25,000 English-speaking Europeans on U.N. topics...