Word: strausses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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News Columnist Drew Pearson wrote last week that Atomic Energy Commission meetings, once enlivened by "fascinating philosophical discussions" on the future of atomic power, now are "ice cold, stiff and edgy." The reason, reported Pearson, is that AEChairman Lewis Strauss uses a recording machine at meetings, and his security officers have clamped taps on the telephone wires of other AEC members. The result, as Pearson saw it, produced fear-muffled commissioners, who are reluctant to voice opinions lest their words some day be turned against them...
...Senate, Iowa's Bourke B. Hickenlooper, one of the original members of the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy, rose to defend his friend Lewis Strauss, and in so doing disclosed a little news himself about what Strauss found when he took over the AEC chairmanship...
...once the commissioners finished their statement, they disagreed sharply on current handling of the atomic program. The three Truman Administration holdovers (Henry DeWolf Smyth, Thomas E. Murray and Eugene M. Zuckert) warned against a trend toward centralization of authority in Chairman Lewis Strauss. Physicist Smyth declared that on some matters Strauss had closed his fellow commissioners out. Industrialist Murray urged equal "authority, responsibility and access to information" for all five members of the commission...
...Chairman Strauss asked that Congress define the respective duties of commissioners and chairman. For policy determination, Strauss urged that the U.S. keep the Government-by-commission approach. But, said Strauss, in daily operations of either a large business or a Government agency (AEC is both), commission rule is "not possible...
...Lewis L. Strauss, chairman of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission . LL.D...