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Harry Truman did not reach into a hat for him, nor did he grab him from Bill Boyle's ever-ready list of faithful party hacks. Dr. Valentine for years has been the great & good friend of NSRB Chairman W. Stuart Symington, who recommended him for the job. Valentine will operate under Coordinator Symington in the new, complex machinery being set up to run the nation's rearmament effort. Valentine's job: plan price and wage policies, and in the end, when he and the President think it is necessary, clamp on controls. Under Valentine will...
...were civilian defense directors of many states, mayors representing some 60 million Americans, leaders of women's groups. They had been summoned to the capital to discuss plans for civilian defense if their communities should be hit by atom bombs. They were met by NSRB Chairman W. Stuart Symington and his brother-in-law, James J. Wadsworth, who is acting federal director of civilian defense...
...Symington confronted them with a long, worried face. He had experienced part of the London blitz, he said, but he had never lost confidence even then that the Allies would eventually win. Now he felt no such confidence. The U.S., he told his visitors, "is in far greater danger than at any time in its history." Russia could deliver the atom bomb "anywhere in this country," and the U.S. might lose a World...
Harrison's views on inventory buying differed considerably from those of the Security Resources Board's W. Stuart Symington. Before a Senate subcommittee Chairman Symington angrily denounced the few "unpatriotic chiselers" and black marketeers who had built up inventories and pushed prices up, notably in crude rubber. Symington even threatened that the U.S. might seize the stocks of such "hoarders...
...STUART SYMINGTON, Chairman of The National Security Resources Board...