Word: stuarts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...admirals," Arthur Radford had opposed the building of the B-36 (as "a billion-dollar blunder") and had questioned the morality and military wisdom of "the atomic blitz." Now, across the table from him sat some of the Senate's strongest air-power advocates, among them Democrat Stuart Symington of Missouri, a Radford foe since his days as Truman's Secretary of the Air Force...
Businessman Stuart, president of Quaker Oats Co.,* liked the house and the appointment. Last week his name went to the Senate. The son and grandson of Canadians, he has been an inveterate tourist in Canada, has made a 1,000-mile pack trip across the Canadian Rockies, fished for salmon in Newfoundland, paddled a canoe north to Hudson...
...Stuart's grandfather, founder of Quaker Oats Co., emigrated to Canada from Scotland; Stuart's father was born at Embro, Ont., later moved to Chicago. Young Stuart's first paid job (17½? an hour), after he left Princeton in 1906, was sweeping the floors of the Quaker mill at Peterboro, Ont. Later he returned to the U.S. to work his way up to the $80,000-a-year top executive...
Without any political experience, he was amazed when in 1949 Republican leaders asked him to be the party's national treasurer. Stuart was equally surprised when Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, a Princeton classmate, called him early this year to offer him a diplomatic post. "Canada," said Stuart, "is the only country to which I would ever, under any circumstances, go as ambassador...
...became vice chairman of the board, making way for a new president, Donold Lourie. This year Stuart resumed the presidency when Lourie went to Washington as an Under Secretary of State...