Word: pike
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...target in Korea," said Atomic Energy Commissioner Sumner Pike, "on which to use such a valuable and costly instrument of warfare...
...Atomic Energy Committee. But as an administrator and a long-range policymaker, he is not regarded as the equal of David E. Lilienthal, who resigned the chairmanship in February after guiding AEC through its first tough three years. Nor is he considered as competent as outspoken Commissioner Sumner T. Pike, a Republican, who was renominated last week only after Brien McMahon assured the Senate that the President would not name Pike as chairman...
Under Lilienthal and the acting chairmanship of Pike, AEC had withstood political pressures fairly well, worked as the ally rather than the captive of McMahon's congressional committee. Now it might find its independence harder to keep...
Just what caused the committee's scunner against Pike was never made clear...
Iowa's Bourke B. Hickenlooper first granted Pike's honesty and patriotism, then questioned Pike's "serious and constructive attention to his job" and concluded that Pike did not "measure up." After hearing the evidence, the Senate decided 55 to 24 that Hickenlooper & Co. didn't know their yardsticks...