Word: jointed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lake Success last week, U.N.'s Atomic Energy Commission was ready to lay down the futile burden it had carried nowhere for almost two years, and give up the ghost. Said Britain, France and the U.S. in a joint post-mortem supported by a majority of the others: "No useful purpose can be served by carrying on negotiations . . . The commission therefore recommends that . . . negotiations in the Atomic Energy Commission be suspended...
Forrestal was forced to admit that the Joint Chiefs of Staff considered the 66-group program "inadequate as a military matter." The Senators, suspicious of a force taken out of mothballs, gave it short shrift, decided to take matters in their own hands...
Stalking into a joint session of both houses, he raked into the hides of "certain obstructionists" who had stampeded his program. They had ignored his plan to increase the terms of state officials from two to four years and his proposed constitutional amendment to reorganize the state's 100-odd commissions, boards and bureaus under tight executive control...
...Final Answer. The hemisphere got a joint military staff committee, a system for compulsory arbitration of legal disputes, an economic and social council. Henceforth a hundred unrelated activities-hemispheric postal union, sanitary conventions, cultural institutes-would be coordinated under Secretary General Alberto Lleras Camargo in Washington. At last an integrated system existed, on paper...
...York Herald Tribune's Bert Andrews, who forced the State Department to modify its high-handed security rules on its employees, and the Minneapolis Tribune's Nat S. Finney, who uncovered the Administration's peacetime censorship plan. Theirs was a joint award for distinguished reporting of national affairs...