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While it was at it, the committee also approved W. W. Waymack, Lewis L. Strauss, Dr. Robert Bacher and Sumner T. Pike as commission members, and Carroll Wilson as general manager...
...despite his wife (Una Merkel), who also ran, and a bunch of Yankee-accented political gangsters. The Claghorn delivery rings out as nobly as the Voice of Bugle Ann. Visually the Senator is not so convincing, and his vehicle grates and clatters like loose buggy tires on a concrete pike...
...Herbert Thompson, with an eye to rising food costs, set forth the new wage demands of the Santa Claus Union (C.I.O.), explained: "They like us chubby, and we have to eat to stay this way." In Richmond, Ind., Santa Claus Clifford Oldham, after listening to two-year-old Patty Pike's Christmas wishes, handed her an apple, got it right back. Said Patty: "Peel it." In Newark, Santa Claus Herman Quaas was haled into court. The charge: refusal to take the city's health test for all Santa Clauses...
...commission, which, as Lilienthal said, "will be pioneering in uncharted fields," includes, besides the former T.V.A. administrator, a physicist, a banker, an editor and a government bureaucrat. By law they are required to devote all their working hours to the atom problem. Except for Lilienthal and Sumner Pike, a former member of the Securities and Exchange Commission, none of the new boardmen has had experience in governmental activity. It would be disastrous, after wresting the power of the atom out of the hands of the Army, to put it in the hands of a logrolling candidate of Senator McKellar...
Sumner T. Pike, 55-year-qld businessman and broker, who ran away from his Maine home, went to sea, sold oil industry equipment in Texas, joined Boston's Stone & Webster, later Wall Street's Case, Pomeroy & Co., served as a Republican member of the Securities and Exchange Commission. He resigned from SEC last March with a note to Harry Truman: "I am getting stale...