Word: johnson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...least widely known, the least colorful and the least eloquent. But he has a lot going for him. He has had more high-level administrative experience in the Federal Government than Massachusetts' Jack Kennedy, Illinois' Adlai Stevenson, Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey and Texas' Lyndon Johnson put together. As a Midwesterner of Southern ancestry, who was born in Amherst, Mass, and raised in Baltimore, Md., he has an enviably broad and safe geographical base. And if he is one of the more pedestrian orators in U.S. Senate history, he partly makes up for it with platform earnestness...
...voted a straight liberal line in the U.S. Senate-certified and approved by Americans for Democratic Action-he has escaped the 200-proof-liberal label that afflicts Hubert Humphrey. And while Southern ties make him tolerable to many delegates from the South, he is not burdened with Lyndon Johnson's probably fatal handicap of being thought of as a Southerner...
After Forrestal's death, Symington fought a continuing battle with his successor, Louis Johnson, to keep up Air Force group strength against the pressures of shrinking, pre-Korea defense budgets. Symington kept insisting that the U.S. needed 70 air groups for minimum safety, but he saw the Air Force dwindle to 50-odd. Early in 1950, when the new budget trimmed the Air Force to 48 groups, Symington resigned in protest...
Well aware that his. Senate career has not brought him the headlines that it has brought his rival colleagues, Kennedy, Johnson and Humphrey, Symington has embarked on a strenuous schedule of speechmaking trips around the country to get himself better known. Mid-October found him in Thomasville, Ga. for a speech to the Rotary and Kiwanis clubs. From there the trail led to Cairo, Ga., his native town of Amherst, to Danbury, Conn., Painesville, Ohio, Gainesville, Fla. Last week, back from Abbeville, he spoke at Democratic meetings in New Castle and Easton, Pa., at St. Louis' Washington University...
After thorough testing, "concrete with a small amount of steel" was chosen as the most durable and practical material. Thus the Stadium became the first large reinforced concrete structure built in this country. The design had been established several years earlier by Professor L. J. Johnson, following the general plan laid down by the H.A.A. Final drawings called for a stadium 573 feet by 420 feet on the outside, enclosing a field whose overall dimensions were 478 feet by 230 feet...