Went Committee

Science Department of the Royal Academy of Sciences to Minister of Education, Arts and Science, November 1919. Ibid. See also the speech of the minister at the installation meeting of the Went Committee, February 16, 1924. Ibid. 

F.A.F.C. Went, installation speech, February 16, 1924. Ibid. Draft report discussed in Went Committee meeting of October 24, 1924. Ibid. 

I went on to the committee meeting, and we concluded that we had not been able to find any good ideas to go to shorter wavelengths. And so we disbanded the committee. Of course, I had just had what seemed like a new idea, but it was brand new, and I wasn t yet sure of it - I thought that I should think about it some more and did not try to mention it to the Committee. 

We went ahead. In two cities, Berlin and Frankfurt, had sat the ruling committees of the Farben empire. The purpose One defendant might initiate a program, but all of the major programs had gone to committees. Take the contract by which Farben in 1938 had got from Ethyl Export Corporation of the United States, under false representations, five hundred tons of lead for aviation gasoline. One of the defendants drafted this contract, but we would show that the others knew of it, too, because they had attended a committee meeting where the deal was approved. 

Most of the Vorstand members were present at the many technical-committee meetings when funds for Auschwitz were allocated. The technical men joined them when they went to the afternoon board meeting, for every member of the technical committee was also a Vorstand member. The Vorstand had to approve every act of the technical committee — every decision, every construction, every purchase, every dollar appropriated. 

A few weeks later in 1934, a small sub-committee of the Un-American Activities Committee went to New York City to interrogate Ivy Lee. At the hearing Lee was asked ... 

The survey instrument, drafted by the principal investigator and the survey contractor, went through 15 drafts and three rounds of peer review at the NIH. The instrument was pretested in 20 interviews for length (under 15 minutes) and clarity. The instrument was translated and back-translated by separate translators into Spanish, Mandarin and Cantonese Chinese, Vietnamese, and Korean. The instrument received approval from the Human Studies Committee at the University of Louisville. All interviewees gave oral consent at the beginning of the interview. 

As this report went to press, the committee was saddened by the unexpected death of a committee member, Dr. John Hedges. Dr. Hedges extensive and thoughtful input to this report reflected his deep interest in this topic and his hopes that this report would meaningfully further the use of reference materials in the ocean sciences. His death is a great loss to the many individuals who knew him personally and to the chemical oceanography community as a whole. 

One day in March 1890 Mendeleev encountered a large student demonstration as he left the university. The students were agitating for the reversal of Delyanov s edicts. Later that day, one of his chemistry students came to his apartment and asked him to come to a student meeting that was to be held at a later date. Mendeleev went. The main order of business was the reading of a petition that a student committee had prepared. It was immediately accepted. But this raised the question of who should take the petition to Delyanov. If a student did this, Delyanov was likely to throw it into a wastebasket without reading it so Mendeleev was asked to present the petition. He agreed. 

In September, 1986, the United States raised the EU hormone ban in the Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). In 1987, after a series of informal bilateral discussions, the United States invoked dispute settlement under the Tokyo Round Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade. Formal bilateral consultations were held on two occasions without a satisfactory resolution. The United States then requested that the matter be referred to a group of technical experts. The European Union blocked the formation of the technical expert group, and the dispute went unresolved. 

The Act established the Tolerance Reassessment Advisory Committee (TRAC), composed of individuals with a variety of backgrounds and interests to consult and make recommendations to both the EPA and USDA. When this committee went out of existence in 1999, the EPA and USDA established a new advisory committee, the Committee to Advise on Reassessment and Transition (CARAT) to provide strategic advice on issues raised by this Act. 

The UK Committee on Toxicity stated (incorrectly) that toxicologists use inbred strains (16) and went on to say that... 

For various reasons, groups such as the American Association of Pharmaceutical Chemists, the National Association of Medicinal Products, and the National Association of Druggists had opposed the bill in its initial form and lobbied actively for a number of modifications resulting in submission of a final form in 1913. Following considerable debate between House and Senate committees over proposed amendments, the Harrison Narcotics Act was passed on December 14, 1914, and went into effect March 1, 1915. Enforcement was assigned to the Bureau of Internal Revenue within the Treasury Department. 

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