Word: sumners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With scarcely any warmup, he promptly went into his weekly political huff. The previous week his target had been Ohio's Robert Taft. Last week it was the Republican opposition to his renomination of Sumner Pike to the Atomic Energy Commission. That opposition seemed to him foolish. He was perfectly aware, he said, that the ground was political; yes, party political; Republican Party political, if you please. It was no surprise to Truman that Colorado's heretic Edwin C. Johnson-a Democrat, of all things-had voted with the Republican Senators against Pike, for Johnson, the President observed...
...when they heard the rumor. Iowa's Senator Bourke B. Hickenlooper, the erratic sparkplug of last summer's investigation of AEC's "incredible mismanagement," was threatening to hold up the renomination of AEC's acting chairman, a white-shocked, plain-talking New England Republican named Sumner Pike. Apparently, Hickenlooper's pique at former Chairman David Lilienthal extended also to Pike, as the last member of the original Lilienthal commission...
...some, the new inflation spelled trouble. Harvard Economist Sumner H. Slichter urged the Government to clamp the lid on mushrooming consumer credit, now at a near-record $18.6 billion, and admonished businessmen to "exercise caution in the accumulation of inventories." Slichter thought, however, that if employment stays up, the current level of business might easily last for nine months to a year longer...
...Sciences, will receive awards this Friday at 12:30 p.m., in the Faculty Room. To Vincent E. Starsinger '50 will go the James Gordon Bennet Prize; to Alfred Arnovitz '51, the Philo Sherman Bennet Prize; to Stephen M. Schwebel '50, the Chase Prize; to Richard F. Pedersen, 3G, the Sumner Prize; and to Carl E. Schorske, candidate for PhD. this June, the Toppan Prize. These awards, given for theses, consist of incomes from invested funds...
...Sumner H. Slichter, Lamont University Professor, told the National Confectioners' Association Wednesday that he expects the cold war and high taxation to continue for the next few years...