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William Stuart Symington, 49, is chief of staff for U.S. home-front mobilization, the nearest thing to its boss. As chairman of the National Security Resources Board, his responsibility, though not his authority, stretches across the spectrum of the U.S. economy. But he has a staff of only 300 and, in bureaucracy's jargon, he only "coordinates" the work of seven Cabinet members, refereeing their arguments rather than dictating to them. Still, in a mobilization pinch, Symington can move in as President Truman's personal representative, twist arms and bang more heads together than could...
Charles Sawyer, 63, Secretary of Commerce, is keeper of the bridge connecting the Government with U.S. industry and business. Stiff and ambitious, he had hoped to grab the power that went to Stu Symington. He is responsible for much of the national production effort, e.g., he oversees the new National Production Authority. He also controls the nation's exports & imports and such enterprises as the Coast and Geodetic Survey, the U.S. Weather Bureau system, the U.S. highway system and inland waterways. He is a conservative lawyer with a long moneymaking record as promoter-businessman...
...varsity summary: Foster (H) defeated Squires, 3-1; Clark (H) defeated Allen, 3-1; Nawn (H) defeated Treman, 3-0; Ufford (H) defeated Dickinson, 3-1; Watts (H) defeated Muller, 3-0; Bacon (H) defeated Symington, 3-0; Kont (W) defeated Hear, 3-2; Mugaseth (H) defeated Thoron, 3-0; Flagg (H) defeated Debevoise...
...National Guard (four divisions and spare parts) and marine outfits still in training, and the newly formed Regular 4th Division which would not be set until late spring. Equally as serious, U.S. industry had not been ordered into even a creeping mobilization. "We are moving," Mobilization Overseer Stuart Symington testified last week before the Senate Banking Committee, "from a light grey state of mobilization to dark grey...
...Disturb. This sounded like murky talk to a nation whose arms crisis had been as clear as black & white since last June. Symington, testifying before a Senate committee the day after MacArthur's communiqué, said that "we ought to try and give present controls more chance and get a little clearer view of exactly what it is that the Defense Department wants before we, you might say, strait-jacket the economy." Essentially, the Administration had been more worried about keeping the $226 billion economy unruffled than about U.S. defenses. For example, instead of pressing the button...