Word: liaison
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...palms with the President at their center, the "Palm Tree Cabinet" debated the best ways to press for next year's stiff Fair Deal agenda. There seemed to be plenty of time for kittenish lightheartedness in the soft warmth of the Florida Keys. One day, for example, Congressional Liaison Man Joseph Feeney was roused from a nap in the sun by a dash of cold water. Above him, grinning broadly, stood the President of the U.S., holding two empty water tumblers...
...unions [held Nov. 16-Dec. 1] marked out the main lines on which Chinese Communist activity is to develop. This conference . . . declared its support for the 'national liberation' forces in Burma, Malaya, Indonesia, Indo-China and the Philippines ... It was finally decided to set up a permanent liaison bureau and secretariat, which . . . would serve as a 'general staff' for all the Communist-led revolutionary movements ... In fact, the Far East now has its Cominform...
...story went like this: in 1943 and 1944, Racey Jordan was stationed at Great Falls, Mont, as a Lend-Lease expediter and liaison officer with the Russian staff headed by a Colonel Anatoly Koti-kov. Through Great Falls moved thousands of U.S. war planes to be ferried on to Russia by way of Alaska. Jordan became suspicious of the black suitcases arriving by special plane and accompanied by armed Russian guards. One day he decided to take action, entered a plane, brushed aside two Russian couriers who "were screaming about diplomatic immunity," and broke open the cases...
...with Russian possession of the bomb, new readjustments were bound to come. It was probably time for congressional re-evaluation of the Atomic Energy (McMahon) Act of 1946, for redefining problems of secrecy and military security, for clarifying the checks & balances on AEC-the "advisory" scientists, the military liaison officers, the joint congressional "watchdog" committee itself. Any changes that had to be made would come more smoothly under a less controversial AEC chairman...
...order to have liaison between the two bodies, Brynteson has been appointed to the Rauschenbush committee; there will presumably be closer ties than this even the two groups are studying the same thing, after all, from however different points of view...