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...Vannevar Bush and David Lilienthal, marched into the President's office and quit. He had no confidence, he said, in Gordon Dean, the man Truman had just appointed AEC chairman. Wilson said that the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy under Connecticut's Senator Brien Mc-Mahon was trying to become "a super board of directors," and argued that Dean, who was formerly a law partner of McMahon's, had neither the ability nor the inclination to resist political interference...
...struggle between General Johnson and Unionmaster McMahon was brief, a settlement coming in three days. Mc-Mahon winnings: the appointment of textile labor representatives on 1) the NRA Labor Advisory Board, 2) the Cotton Textile Code Authority, 3) the industry's Industrial Relations Board, which was remodeled and given powers similar to those of the Automobile Labor Board. General Johnson promised that all three of these labor representatives should be picked from the United Textile Workers if the fact was established that the union was the only important cotton textile union and had at least 200,000 bona fide...