Word: stuarts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After President Truman nominated Harry A. McDonald, a Republican, to succeed W. Stuart Symington as RFC boss, the Senate banking committee refused to approve him. Reason: a House committee was investigating the Securities & Exchange Commission, which McDonald has headed since 1949. Senators were also worried about reports that three SEC officials, who had resigned, had later turned up as counsel in cases before...
...received more national attention than Missouri's. There James Kem, arch-conservative Republican, is expected to go after a second term. Attorney General J. E. Taylor, the only candidate so far for the Democratic nomination, offers no serious threat to Kem. But now Democrats are talking about W. Stuart Symington, the retiring RFC boss. Some liberal Republicans who don't like Kern's record, and a good many businessmen who normally would vote Republican, might go for Symington, onetime St. Louis industrialist. There has been speculation, too, that Kem might have to face the old master himself...
Leontief also stressed the dependency of certain nations on the raw material purchases of the United States and intimated that problems regarding the Bolivian tin situation were responsible for the recent resignation of W. Stuart Symington from the War Resources Board...
...more than six years, W. Stuart Symington has been a tireless troubleshooter for Harry Truman. He has handled four mettle-testing Washington assignments since Truman brought him in from St. Louis in 1945 as Surplus Property Administrator. Last week, with a casual shrug of the shoulders, Truman dropped the word that he will accept Symington's resignation some time this month. Truman didn't seem to care...
...that Stuart Symington is pulling out of the RFC (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), Bolivians hope that a settlement is at last in sight in their ten-month-long row with the U.S. over the price of tin. Last week Ambassador Ricardo Martinez Vargas had a talk with President Truman, and Dean Acheson declared that it was "extremely important" for agreement to be reached quickly between the two countries...