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...with the keys to the cupboard is handsome, hard-driving W. Stuart Symington, 49, who resigned as Secretary of the Air Force last spring to take over the chairmanship of the National Security Resources Board (composed of seven Cabinet members and himself). In Stu Symington's keeping is the latest draft of an Emergency War Powers bill which, if approved by NSRB and enacted by Congress, could stop overnight the manufacture of life-size Hopalong Cassidy dolls and set auto workers to making tanks. It would give the President all the vast powers he had in World...
...Symington's 250-man staff makes no secret of the fact that its blueprints for economic mobilization are by no means complete; some of the toughest decisions have yet to be argued out, e.g., what industries will be the first to be deprived of steel? Will there be a real labor draft...
Chairman W. Stuart Symington of the National Security Resources Board: The nation must be ready for war at any time without warning or formal declaration . . . Already we are being warred against...
...friendly, even-tempered Democrat who lives quietly with his wife (the daughter of Conductor Walter Damrosch) in Manhattan, Tom Finletter seemed a good choice to settle the boiling controversy over aircraft procurement. Best bet was that Secretary Finletter would follow Secretary Symington's line: agree to a 48-group Air Force now, as the President ordered; keep plugging for a 70-group Air Force as the minimum safe air defense...
...dropped in casually to see the governor. At the big Kansas City dinner for Democratic Chairman Bill Boyle, Binaggio planted himself right in front of the President of the U.S., sat cheek by jowl with such notables as Attorney General Howard McGrath and Secretary of the Air Force Stuart Symington...