Word: floberg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Congress. They want AEC to build and run $210 million worth of atomic power projects, thus set precedent for Government operation of atom plants for consumers. If program is blocked, Democrats threaten to stop some appropriations for AEC, hold up confirmation of newly named AECommissioners John Graham and John Floberg...
...made his departure from office readily predictable (TIME, May 6). Last week President Eisenhower made official his decision not to reappoint Murray, whose term expires next week. Instead, in an obvious effort to head off Democratic congressional criticism, he nominated onetime (1949-53) Truman Assistant Navy Secretary John F. Floberg, 41, a political independent who has been practicing law in Washington since leaving government. Jack Floberg has one sound credential for AEC service: he played an active role in pushing the building of the atomic submarine Nautilus...
Last week, with Dan Kimball gone and Republican Robert Anderson not yet confirmed, Francis Whitehair was in his glory. (John Floberg, whom Lovett had intended to be Acting Secretary of the Navy, sat in his Pentagon office ruefully trying to laugh the whole thing off.) Asked whatever happened to that letter of resignation, Whitehair said blandly: "I do not know . . . But I'm not going to call the White House to find out. And I'm not going to call the White House every day to find out if I'm Secretary of the Navy...
...came time to choose a Truman appointee to stay on with the Navy Department until Republican Secretary-designate Robert B. Anderson could learn his job, former Defense Secretary Robert Lovett passed over Whitehair in favor of a lower-ranking official, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Air John F. Floberg...
Hydro-ski aircraft, said Floberg, would be handy in many situations for which the U.S. now has no practical plane. They could be based in the protected water of forward areas before airfields are built. In some cases they might do away entirely with the necessity of building an expensive runway on land. They could also be used to protect long-range bombers, landing at sea to refuel from submarines or high-speed surface craft...