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When President Eisenhower was asked at a press conference why he had refused to reappoint William R. Connole to the Federal Power Commission, he replied with unusual feeling: "I think I can find a better man." Last week, to replace Connole, the President named Brooklyn-born Thomas James Donegan, 53, a former FBI agent and member of the Subversive Activities Control Board, who helped present the evidence to federal grand juries that indicted Alger Hiss, William W. Remington and Judith Coplon. Also named to the FPC was Paul A. Sweeny, 64, a Democrat and Justice Department lawyer, who will fill...
Keen, combative Connole is a Hartford lawyer who was appointed to the FPC in 1955 after serving as general counsel of the Connecticut Public Utilities Commission. When word got out that he was not to be reappointed, seven state public utility commissions protested. Unmoved, the White House said that the President decided not to reappoint Connole because he does not get along with the other commissioners, has urged greater federal control of gas than the Administration believes is necessary. Explained a presidential aide: "There is no reason to keep a man in a job whose philosophy does not agree with...
...West Orange, N.J. New Jersey's Governor Harold G. Hoffman thought more people were responsible for the death of the Lindbergh baby than Bruno Hauptmann, who was executed for the crime. Calling Schwarzkopf's investigation "the most bungled police job in history," the Governor refused to reappoint him. West Pointer Schwarzkopf went on to more fame as narrator of radio's Gang Busters series, re-entered the Army and was sent to Iran during World War II to reorganize the imperial police force and to keep supply lines open to Russia...
...control of either of us make a change in the chairmanship of the commission advisable." Thus, after five effective and harassed years, Strauss last week announced his retirement from his job when his term expires at month's end. He turned down President Eisenhower's offer to reappoint him for a second five-year term (TIME, June 9), accepted instead a new post as special presidential assistant for atoms-for-peace. Replied Dwight Eisenhower in a letter of rare warmth accepting Strauss's resignation: "Thanks in large measure to your early awareness of the broadest military implications...
Despite ability and eloquence, Democratic Atomic Energy Commissioner Thomas E. Murray's frequent personality and policy clashes with AEC Chairman Lewis Strauss made his departure from office readily predictable (TIME, May 6). Last week President Eisenhower made official his decision not to reappoint Murray, whose term expires next week. Instead, in an obvious effort to head off Democratic congressional criticism, he nominated onetime (1949-53) Truman Assistant Navy Secretary John F. Floberg, 41, a political independent who has been practicing law in Washington since leaving government. Jack Floberg has one sound credential for AEC service: he played an active...