Word: truman
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...from Harvard Law School, wandered between private practice and Government work (including tours as an attorney with the Justice and Labor Departments) before joining the Harvard faculty in 1945. A brilliant, ever-questioning teacher of labor law, Cox took time off in 1952 to serve as chairman of Harry Truman's Wage Stabilization Board but resigned in protest after four months when Truman overruled one of his wage recommendations. After the labor bill battle he became a Kennedy enthusiast, took leave from his Harvard chair (the Royall Professorship, oldest endowed chair in the law faculty) last July to serve...
...boss and good friend, incoming Defense Secretary Robert McNamara). After the war, Zuckert became executive assistant to Surplus Property Administrator Stu Symington, followed Symington into the Pentagon E-Ring as an Assistant Secretary of the Air Force. Appointed to the Atomic Energy Commission in 1952 by Harry Truman, Zuckert signed the controversial majority decision in 1954 that barred Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer from access to classified material. The day after the decision was announced Zuckert's A EC term expired and he went into Washington law practice...
...Governor of New York and twice a losing candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, has had more than his share of diplomatic experience. An F.D.R. favorite, Millionaire Harriman undertook special Presidential wartime missions to London and Moscow, later served three useful years (1943-46) as Ambassador to Russia. Harry Truman assigned him briefly to the Court of St. James's, later gave him a variety of international chores: Economic Cooperation Administrator in Europe with the rank of ambassador, Director of the Mutual Security Agency. Last fall, Harriman made a special fact-finding mission to West Africa on behalf...
...look into the mess. Landis brought to the task plenty of firsthand experience in the regulatory-agency mazes. Back in New Deal days, he was a Federal Trade commissioner, then a Securities and Exchange commissioner, then SEC chairman (succeeding Joseph Patrick Kennedy, Jack's father). Under Harry Truman he served two years as chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board...
...Interstate Commerce Commission in 1887, Congress deliberately insulated them from presidential control. The President names the members, but once appointed they have tenure for at least five years. In 1937 Congress rejected Franklin Roosevelt's plan to attach the independent agencies to Cabinet departments, and not until the Truman Administration came along did Congress grant the President the authority to name agency chair men (up until then, the agency chairman was usually elected by the commissioners themselves...