Word: briens
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1950
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...uniformed cops and plainclothesmen (one-third of the city's entire force). Present at the service in the Roman Catholic Church of the Ascension were the police glee club, which sang the Requiem Mass, the six Catholic, Jewish and Protestant police department chaplains, Police Commissioner William O'Brien and other top-ranking police officials, and, looking grim, Mayor O'Dwyer himself...
...months, President Truman had been unsuccessfully trying to land a man of stature as chairman of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. All the time, Connecticut's Senator Brien McMahon kept nudging the presidential ribs and pointing admiringly at McMahon's friend and former law partner, Gordon Dean. Last week Mr. Truman gave in to McMahon's rib-poking. The White House announced that friendly, freckled Gordon Dean, a member of AEC since May 1949, would be the new $17,500-a-year chief of the nation's billion-dollar atomic energy program...
...chairman of Congress' Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, Brien McMahon was in a fine spot to do a friend a favor. Dean was appointed to AEC in the first place at McMahon's urging, was reappointed this year to a fresh three-year term. Seattle-born Gordon Dean, 44, began his public career under McMahon's wing. In 1934, he quit teaching law at Duke University to become assistant to McMahon in the Justice Department's Criminal Division; there the two became friends. Dean spent six years at Justice, quit to join McMahon's Washington...
...range policymaker, he is not regarded as the equal of David E. Lilienthal, who resigned the chairmanship in February after guiding AEC through its first tough three years. Nor is he considered as competent as outspoken Commissioner Sumner T. Pike, a Republican, who was renominated last week only after Brien McMahon assured the Senate that the President would not name Pike as chairman...
Partisan Pitches. Once they had wound up, the subcommittee's three Democrats -Maryland's Millard Tydings, Rhode Island's Theodore Green and Connecticut's Brien McMahon-got in a few unmistakably partisan pitches. Straight-faced, they recommended the appointment of a twelve-man nonpartisan commission to go over the loyalty ground again, "human nature being what it is, particularly in an election year." Then they needled Republican members Bourke B. Hickenlooper and Henry Cabot Lodge (who did not sign the report) for not attending sessions regularly, adding that Hickenlooper had read through only nine...