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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Louise. Absorbing the household's bookish atmosphere-adorning the mantle was a Latin motto that translates as "Life without literature is death"-little Stu read so avidly that the family called him "the professor." As his Christmas present when he was ten, he asked for and got a set of the Encyclopaedia Britannica...
...year, plus a stock-option deal. Emerson was deep in the red and battered by labor troubles, had barely managed to survive a bitter, 53-day sitdown strike in 1937. Taking over as president in unpromising 1938, Symington new-broomed away most of the old management, set about winning over his workers. William Sentner, Midwest boss of the United Electrical Workers, was an avowed Communist, but Symington got along fine with him. Symington wooed and won the workers with a union shop, dues checkoff, union-management committees and a hefty profit-sharing plan...
...Load of Coal. After the U.S. got into World War II, Symington set out to make gun turrets for U.S. bombers. During the harried months of the switchover at Emerson, with the Air Corps' General "Hap" Arnold calling him up to plead for "just one turret, just one," Symington worked around the clock. When exhaustion dragged at him, he flopped on a cot in his office. When he woke up, often in the middle of the night, he went back to work. General Arnold got turrets aplenty...
...Finance Corp. Symington had no operating control over sales, no way of seeing to it that his policies were carried out. After half a year of frustrations, he went to Truman and urged him to wrap policymaking and selling into a single agency. Truman abolished Symington's SPA, set up the War Assets Administration, with Lieut. General E. B. Gregory as boss. To Symington's great relief, he was out from under the coal...
...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...