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Atomic piles for peacetime uses can be turned into weapons "in a matter of weeks," Sumner T. Pike, acting chairman of the Atomic Energy Committee, told the Nieman Fellows Saturday night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pike Fears Quick Atom Conversion | 3/20/1950 | See Source »

...United States is making a transition from the postwar boom to a period when the demand for goods will depend largely on current needs, Sumner H. Slichter, Lamont University Professor, told a Chicago audience yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Boom Is Levelling Off, Slichter Says | 3/18/1950 | See Source »

Former assistant professor at Wesleyan University, Overstreet came to Harvard in 1947 for his Ph.D. His doctoral thesis in 1948, "Sovereignty in the Constitutions of Some International Organizations," won the Charles Sumner Prize. He received his A.B. degree in 1937 from the University of California and his M.A. degree in 1940 from Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Overstreet Goes To Smith Position | 3/18/1950 | See Source »

...worked his way through Bowdoin College, played center, more doggedly than skillfully, on the football team, and graduated with a Phi Beta Kappa key. An old classmate, Atomic Energy Commissioner Sumner Pike, remembers him as a tall, gangling rebel even then: "I was rather to the right of William Howard Taft, who was then President, and he was rather to the left of Eugene V. Debs, who was tried for something about once every four years. Douglas was a radical campus leader in almost everything. If he could find a minority, he would go with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The Making of a Maverick | 1/16/1950 | See Source »

Professor William Sumner Jenkins of the University of North Carolina was fed up with the historian's lot. He had research work to do on constitutional amendments and he was well started, but to finish it he would have to travel thousands of miles to study documents scattered all over the nation. He reflected unhappily that he did not even know where many of them were, or how long he would have to search for them, or whether they existed at all. Then one day in 1936 Jenkins got his idea. He knew that in official archives and private...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Monument on Deck 38 | 1/2/1950 | See Source »

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