Word: lawyered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drum up support for Symington. Around the end of November, Missouri's Governor James Blair will depart on a similar missionary trek to sell the Symington cause, especially to Democratic Governors. Symington's behind-the-scenes strategy board, made up of five Missourians headed by Washington Lawyer Clark Clifford and Congressman Brown, is convinced that any head-on push for the nomination would hurt rather than help Symington's chances of winning...
...everything he ever took up, whether business, politics, tennis, golf or bridge, Stu Symington has been a fierce competitor-keeping his surface unruffled but seething underneath with a wild hatred of defeat. "If Stuart were playing marbles with a six-year-old," says a St. Louis lawyer who has known Symington for many years and admires him intensely, "victory would still be a matter of life or death. He plays everything...
...Main Streets. A band of influential Missourians led by St. Louis Lawyer Jacob M. Lashly, sometime president of the American Bar Association, urged Symington to run for the Senate in the 1952 election. "I don't think the world is in as bad shape as you do," Lashly told him. "But if it is, you have no right to go back to the pleasure of making money...
...shook hands on wide and narrow Main Streets all over Missouri, made 22 speeches in one grueling day. To help woo the voters, he took along the other members of what is one of the most personable families in U.S. politics: Wife Evie, Elder Son Stuart Jr. (now a lawyer in St. Louis), Younger Son Jim, an accomplished singer who entertained voters with folk songs, accompanying himself on the guitar...
Running for re-election last year against a woman lawyer, Shoo-In Symington ran a lot harder than he needed to, racked up the most lopsided victory (66.4% of the votes) ever recorded in a Missouri senatorial election. His hard race seemed proof that the Symington-for-President boomlet in 1956, when Missouri's convention delegation voted for him as a favorite son, had set presidential ambitions astir...