Word: stewardship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was another, more subtle factor. Under Chairman Lilienthal's stewardship, the U.S. atomic program had successfully made the transition from military to civilian control. Production and morale were up; personnel turnover had been reduced; scientific research had taken big strides (see SCIENCE). But with Russian possession of the bomb, new readjustments were bound to come. It was probably time for congressional re-evaluation of the Atomic Energy (McMahon) Act of 1946, for redefining problems of secrecy and military security, for clarifying the checks & balances on AEC-the "advisory" scientists, the military liaison officers, the joint congressional "watchdog" committee...
...after 50 years in politics (four terms as mayor, four as a U.S. Representative, one as governor), he had suffered at one time or another from diabetes, arteriosclerosis, hypertension and ingrown eyelashes. He had served two penal sentences (the last, in 1947 for mail fraud) and during his stewardship Boston's debt and high taxes have increased, and its reputation for corruption has not declined...
...investigation into Chairman David Lilienthal's two-year stewardship of the Atomic Energy Commission had all the familiar trappings of a congressional hazing. But the act was getting out of hand. Baking in the floodlights that shone for the spider-legged newsreel and television cameras, Iowa's schoolmasterish Senator Bourke Hickenlooper suddenly began to look more like the defendant than the prosecutor...
Winston Churchill's The Gathering Storm was the first dramatic volume of what promises to be a great history of the war and Churchill's stewardship. Best of such U.S. books was Dramatist Robert Sherwood's Roosevelt and Hopkins, perhaps too worshipful of both men, but the clearest view yet of the war at the Roosevelt-Churchill-Stalin level. Overshadowed by these two, but important for the record, were The Memoirs of Cordell Hull and Henry L. Stimson's On Active Service in Peace...
Later, his birthday and the hunt behind him, Churchill stood up on the floor of the House of Commons and, amid grave silence from his colleagues, demanded from Prime Minister Clement Attlee an account of the Labor government's stewardship over the nation's moldering defenses...