Word: upness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Feat of Clay. The Symingtons' first home was a two-room apartment in Rochester, N.Y. Stu went to work in an iron foundry owned by his father's brothers. Starting near the bottom, as a chipper and then a moulder, he used to come home black with grime...
Evie, too, was doing pretty well at moneymaking. Gifted with a rich contralto, she frequently sang, without thought of fee, at society charity events. Singing at a heart-clinic benefit at the Place Pigalle nightclub on Manhattan's West 52nd Street in 1934, she so impressed the manager that...
A Load of Coal. After the U.S. got into World War II, Symington set out to make gun turrets for U.S. bombers. During the harried months of the switchover at Emerson, with the Air Corps' General "Hap" Arnold calling him up to plead for "just one turret, just one...
When a House select committee investigated surplus disposal in 1946, after Symington had moved on to the War Department, its report rapped him for "chaotic administrative conditions" and "favoritism if not downright corruption" in sales of surplus property. But Symington's SPA, as he pointed out to the committee...
"Absolutely Relentless." After killing off SPA, Truman named Symington Assistant Secretary of War for Air. When the Air Force split off from the Army in the defense reorganization of 1947, Symington became the first Air Force Secretary. Like all strong Air Force partisans, he had fought fiercely for a strong...