Word: murrays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Atomic Energy Commission from discussing his report at last summer's Geneva Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy, said that radiation from H-bomb tests could cause "tens of thousands" of harmful mutations in the next generation of Americans. And more recently, Thomas E. Murray, member of the AEC, declared that atmospheric contamination "could be catastrophic. A sufficiently large number of such explosions would render the earth uninhabitable to man." He went on to say that the "new power we have in hand can affect the lives of generations still unborn...
Beyond the Kravitz case, Committee Counsel Robert Kennedy (brother of Massachusetts' Democratic Senator John Kennedy) began to throw some other names at Murray Chotiner. It developed that the California lawyer had represented Marco Regnelli, a notorious New Jersey hoodlum, who was trying (unsuccessfully, it turned out) to set aside a U.S. order of deportation. Also involved in Chotiner's dealings with Kravitz and Regnelli, in a way not entirely clear, was a man named W. A. Parzow, a convicted jury tamperer from Miami and Atlantic City, who seemed to have been instrumental in getting Chotiner and his troubled...
...name Murray Chotiner, dropped into the Senate investigation of military uniform procurement frauds a fortnight ago, set journalistic and political antennas twanging all over Washington. Reason: in the political context of 1956, the name Chotiner goes with the name Nixon...
...week's end two points were clear: 1) Murray Chotiner had been sought out by, and had gone to work for, unsavory clients who obviously regarded him as a man of influence; and 2) on the basis of evidence so far adduced, he had been remarkably unsuccessful in wielding...
Tearing the Heart. No one realizes this better than Candidate Stevenson. Touring Pennsylvania last week, Stevenson drew good crowds but appeared weary and snappish (mourned friendly N.Y. Postman Murray Kempton: "It almost tears the heart to see Stevenson"). Although Adlai had been assured of Pennsylvania's 74 convention votes by Governor George Leader and Pittsburgh's Mayor David Lawrence, Stevenson remarked: "I can't be sure, of course, that I will retain their allegiance until next August." Estes Kefauver was in no better shape; his improved Gallup poll rating after the Minnesota primary could be expected...