Word: symington
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...severity of these questions should not give the impression that McCone's appointment was in any danger; indeed, Senator Symington, less like a blocker than a best man, led him through the Committee hearing as he would down a wedding aisle. Strom Thurmond (D-S.C.) also came to the defense of the blushing newly-wed when Senators like Fulbright, Clark, McCarthy and Case (R-S.D.) impugned his honor...
Fluent Heavyweight. After the war, Hamilton became chief legal consultant of the Justice Department, later returned to private practice (mainly international law) in Manhattan, where he now lives. A confirmed Democrat who gets along well with Republicans, he backed Stu Symington for President, helped write a report on the Defense Department for John Kennedy immediately after the election...
...Blackmail & Terror." The U.S. Sen ate convened in a mood of icy anger. California Republican Thomas Kuchel accused Khrushchev of "sham and hypocrisy." Cried Missouri Democrat Stuart Symington: "It has never been clear to me why we should take for granted the fact the Soviets ever stopped testing. Why should we assume they are not testing? . . . Our Allies are watching what we do, not what we say." Backed by a dozen other Senators,* Connecticut Democrat Thomas Dodd introduced a resolution calling for the U.S. to resume nuclear tests immediately. Stopping the tests in 1958, said Dodd, "was the most fatuous...
...lawyers-Floyd R. Gibson of Kansas City, and William H. Becker of Columbia-for a pair of vacant district judgeships in the western half of the state. Since both men have earned the approval of the American Bar Association-and, more importantly, the political backing of Democratic Senators Stuart Symington and Edward Long-the Senate was expected to pass quickly and approvingly on the appointments. Thus one of the most important domestic problems confronting the New Frontier last week moved a small step closer to solution...
...this point the smiles would seem to be well justified. Established by Executive Order on March 1, the Corps has developed into an efficient, if not always smooth and neat, organization. At hearings on the Peace Corps Bill conducted by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Sen. Stuart Symington (D-Mo.) publicly lauded Director R. Sargent Shriver for his presentation of the Peace Corps' case. It is a good thing he did not take the short tour on the heels of a Public Relations man that some did. The senator would undoubtedly be amazed at how anything coherent could emerge from...