The S-1 Executive Committee laid the groundwork for the Manhattan Project by initiating and coordinating the early research efforts in the United States...
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informed Groves of his decision at the 14 November meeting of the S-1 Executive Committee. Although Groves "had serious misgivings about the wisdom of Compton's...
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Lewis recommended that the work be continued. The S-1 Executive Committee superseded the Uranium Committee on 19 June 1942, dropping Gunn from its membership...
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The Executive Committee Range (76°50′S 126°00′W / 76.833°S 126.000°W / -76.833; -126.000 (Executive Committee Range)) is a range consisting of five...
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Chicago. June 19: S-1 Executive Committee is formed, consisting of Bush, Conant, Compton, Lawrence and Urey. June 25: S-1 Executive Committee selects Stone...
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oversight of the project by the OSRD, replacing the Section S-1 with a new S-1 Executive Committee. A week later, on June 23, President Roosevelt sent this...
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The Executive Committee of the Communist International, commonly known by its acronym, ECCI (Russian acronym ИККИ - for Исполнительный комитет Коммунистического...
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An executive order is a directive issued by the head of state or government that manages the operations of a nation’s executive branch. While the structure...
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States presidents issue executive orders (in addition to other executive actions) to help officers and agencies of the executive branch manage the operations...
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The Joint Executive Committee (Russian: Объединённый исполнительный комитет, abbreviated ОИК, 'OIK') was an organ of soviet power in the Russian Far East...
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effort, which became the Manhattan Project. The S-1 Committee was reorganised as the S-1 Executive Committee, and Pegram dropped out. Columbia's physics department...
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Retrieved April 1, 2025. "EXECUTIVE BRANCH" (PDF). U.S. Government Publishing Office. February 12, 2016. "Appropriations Committee Releases Fiscal Year...
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Quebec Agreement (redirect from Combined Policy Committee)
returned to the UK. Groves briefed the OSRD S-1 Executive Committee, which had replaced the S-1 Committee on 19 June 1942, at a special meeting on 10...
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Society, President, 1938 Uranium Committee S-1 of the National Defense Research Committee, Chairman, 1939 Research Committee of the National Geographic Society...
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The All-Russian Central Executive Committee (Russian: Всероссийский Центральный Исполнительный Комитет (ВЦИК), romanized: Vserossijskij Tsentraĺný Ispolniteĺný...
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board, called an executive committee, to handle its business. The executive committee may function more like a board than an actual committee. In any case...
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equivalent to the supervisory board, while the executive board may often be known as the executive committee (the division/subsidiary heads and C-level officers...
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Executive Order 9981 was an executive order issued on July 26, 1948, by President Harry S. Truman. It abolished discrimination "on the basis of race,...
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John S. Chen (Chinese: 程守宗; pinyin: Chéng Shǒuzōng; Jyutping: cing4 sau2 zung1; born July 1, 1955) is a Hong Kong-American businessman who served as executive...
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EXCOMM (redirect from Executive Committee of the National Security Council)
The Executive Committee of the National Security Council (commonly referred to as simply the Executive Committee or ExComm) was a body of United States...
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The Central Executive Committee (CEC) is the highest executive committee within the People's Action Party (PAP) and its "inner circle". The internal concentration...
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Viktor Nogin (category Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union members)
Chairman of the Moscow Military Revolutionary Committee and Chairman of the Presidium of the Executive Committee of Moscow Council of Workers' Deputies (Mayor...
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Chuck Blazer (category Jewish American sports executives and administrators)
a FIFA Executive Committee member from 1996 to 2013, the CONCACAF general secretary from 1990 to 2011, and executive vice president of the U.S. Soccer...
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recommendations and pressure by the committee, Ford issued Executive Order 11905 (ultimately replaced in 1981 by President Reagan's Executive Order 12333) to ban US...
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select committee of the U.S. House of Representatives established to investigate the U.S. Capitol attack. After refusing to concede the 2020 U.S. presidential...
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panel now known as the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform was originally the Committee on Expenditures in the Executive Departments, created in...
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an executive organ that normally acts as an advisory body to the president. In the Opinion Clause (Article II, section 2, clause 1) of the U.S. Constitution...
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United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, informally known as the Senate Judiciary Committee, is a standing committee of 22 U.S. senators whose role...
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Review Committee of the HKSAR. The chief executive-designate is then returned by the Election Committee with an absolute majority. The Election Committee is...
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