Word: stuarts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would put a single U.S. city in shape to meet atomic attack, even if Joe Stalin mailed out a week's notice. Harry Truman's National Security Resources Board had been sitting on civil defense for 17 months, had yet to hatch anything. Its new director, energetic Stuart Symington, promised action by early September. But like Tom Dewey, the U.S. was beginning to wonder if that was soon enough...
...Stuart Symington, chief of economic mobilization, told a Senate committee...
...with the keys to the cupboard is handsome, hard-driving W. Stuart Symington, 49, who resigned as Secretary of the Air Force last spring to take over the chairmanship of the National Security Resources Board (composed of seven Cabinet members and himself). In Stu Symington's keeping is the latest draft of an Emergency War Powers bill which, if approved by NSRB and enacted by Congress, could stop overnight the manufacture of life-size Hopalong Cassidy dolls and set auto workers to making tanks. It would give the President all the vast powers he had in World...
...home, he was so promptly disembarrassed by her poise and charm that he stuffed a pipe brimful with stinking shag and harangued her happily for three solid hours, "exactly as if he were talking with a clever man." And Charles Dickens-to say nothing of Thackeray and John Stuart Mill-felt much the same way about Jane Carlyle. "None of the writing women," said Dickens, "came near...
Last week, after about three years of study, Justice Minister Stuart Garson contritely declared that the property taken from the Japanese had been sold too cheaply. The government, he announced, would pay $1,222,829 to 1,300 citizens of Japanese descent to compensate them for their losses. Commented the Ottawa Citizen: "The settlement. . . will wind up an affair of which no Canadian can be proud...