Word: senatore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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(See Cover) Behind wailing police sirens, a cream-colored Cadillac sped into Abbeville, La. from the dusty airport, rolled on past the white-columned courthouse, and pulled up in front of the Candlelight Restaurant. Missouri's Senator Stuart Symington unfolded his long (6 ft. 2 in., 183 lbs.), well...
A Special Poverty. Behind the posture of serenity, his friends and backers are convinced, Senator Symington burns with a longing for the White House every bit as intense as Senator Kennedy's. In everything he ever took up, whether business, politics, tennis, golf or bridge, Stu Symington has been...
Stu was especially lucky at wooing. At a charity ball during his sophomore year at Yale, he was stricken by the blue eyes and golden hair of pretty Evelyn Wadsworth, daughter of New York's wealthy Republican Senator (1915-27) James Wadsworth, granddaughter of Secretary of State (1898-1905...
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...
After trouncing a Truman-backed rival in the Democratic primary by a margin of 2 to 1, Symington went on to unseat Old Guard Republican Senator James Kem by more than 150,000 votes, while Eisenhower was carrying Missouri by close to 30,000.