Word: smithing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Homeward bound from Washington last week were two top Administration officials, both disappointed men. One was Navy Secretary Thomas S. (for Sovereign) Gates Jr., 52, already marked down in Navy legend as the best Secretary since the late James Forrestal. The other was James H. (for Hopkins) Smith Jr., 49, highly respected in the State Department for his two-year stint as International
Almost as well known was Jim Smith's yen for Gates's job after he finished a self-imposed two-year ICA tour. Smith, a wartime carrier pilot and postwar Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Air (1953-56), appeared a natural to become Secretary. But Gates, with White House approval, offered the job to Under Secretary William Birrell Franke (rhymes with lanky), 64, wealthy retired accountant and since 1954 a quietly competent assistant secretary for financial management. When Franke declined for health reasons (arthritis), Gates suggested Smith...
Trouble was that Senate Republicans, who like Gates, dislike able, impetuous Jim Smith. As ICA boss he was known to boil over at Congressmen, to refuse jobs to Republican politicians because politics made them "controversial."' Quickly New Hampshire's Styles Bridges and other G.O.P. members of the Senate Appropriations and Armed Services Committees passed the word to G.O.P. National Chairman Meade Alcorn that Smith as Navy Secretary was no go. On that basis Gates persuaded Franke, by then considerably recovered, to reconsider...
Last week, with Franke's promotion official, disappointed Jim Smith went home to Aspen, Colo. Gates prepared to leave June 1, after the Navy's 1960 budget passes. Last week also a third disappointed man popped up. Grieved was G.O.P. Chairman Alcorn. who had done no more than listen to congressional advice, had been clobbered in print as the man who put the finger on Independent Republican Smith...
...unbeaten Crimson wrestlers are Carl Kludt at 130, victorious in his only start against Dartmouth, and 167-pounder Rick Sullivan, who beat both his Dartmouth and Columbia opponents. Heavyweight Ted Robbins, after losing against Cornell and Franklin & Marshall, has won three in a row and will face Penn's Smith, whom Pickett calls a "pretty good heavyweight...