Word: hadly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Party's Choice? Of the five men who, according to the pols and the polls, have at least an outside chance of winning the Democratic presidential nomination in 1960, Stuart Symington is the least widely known, the least colorful and the least eloquent. But he has a lot going...
Early in life, Stu manifested the luck that was to stay with him over the years. He totally escaped the eye affliction, deterioration of the retina, that has given all three of his brothers faint vision. While playing tag in the framework of an unfinished house at age 9, he...
Streak of Respect. In 1938, after two years as president of Baltimore's Rustless Iron & Steel Co., followed by a year of semi-retired dabbling in various ventures, Symington was looking around restlessly for something to do. At the urging of Wall Street Investment Banker David Van Alstyne Jr...
As head of a wartime Senate committee investigating defense production, Missouri's Senator Harry Truman looked closely at Emerson and "could never find anything wrong with it," as he put it. Impressed with Symington and his performance at Emerson, President Truman summoned him to the White House in mid...
When a House select committee investigated surplus disposal in 1946, after Symington had moved on to the War Department, its report rapped him for "chaotic administrative conditions" and "favoritism if not downright corruption" in sales of surplus property. But Symington's SPA, as he pointed out to the committee...