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  Stuart Symington - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
William Stuart Symington (June 26, 1901–December 14, 1988) was a U.S. businessman and political figure.
A Democrat, Symington was elected to the United States Senate from Missouri in 1952 and served in the Senate from 1953 until 1976.
His cousin Fife Symington was Governor of Arizona from 1991 to 1997.
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 Fife Symington III - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Fife Symington III (born August 12, 1945 in New York City) was the Republican governor of the U.S. state of Arizona from 1991 until his resignation in 1997.
Symington comes from a distinguished Maryland family; he is a great-grandson of steel magnate Henry Clay Frick and his father was U.S. ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago 1969-1971.
His cousin, Stuart Symington, was a U.S. Senator from Missouri and father of James Wadsworth Symington, a U.S. Representative from that state.
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 NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: Stuart Symington   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Stuart Symington is sworn in as Secretary of the Air Force by Chief Justice Fred Vinson, as Secretary of the Army Kenneth C. Royall, Secretary of Defense James V. Forrestal, and Secretary of the Navy John L. Sullivan look on.
Unlike Symington, Forrestal was not a personable leader, and while the two men were longtime friends and respected each other, they did not get along because their points of view on the disposition of the budget and the operation of the Department of Defense were often diametrically opposed.
Symington was born in Leadhills, Lanarkshire, Scotland to a family he described as being "respectable but not wealthy." His father worked as a practical mechanic at the Leadhills mines.
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 Stuart Symington
Symington, patrician son of an Amherst College professor, was tall, urbane, and sophisticated.
Symington enlisted as a private and was commissioned at 17 as a second lieutenant.
Symington, in characteristic fashion, gave the public a full view of the case, and Meyers was dismissed from the Air Force.
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 Printable Version on Encyclopedia.com
SYMINGTON, WILLIAM STUART [Symington, William Stuart] 1901-88, U.S. Senator (1953-76), b.
In his early years in the Senate, he was mainly preoccupied with the question of national defense and warned the nation of the danger of the Soviet lead in the missile race.
Symington was easily reelected to the Senate in 1958, 1964, and 1970; in 1960 he was an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination.
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 Stuart_Symington   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
A Democrat, Symington was elected to the United States Senate from Missouri in 1952 and served from 1953 to 1976.
Symington ran for President in 1960 and won the backing of former President Harry S. Truman, but eventually lost the nomination to Senator John F. Kennedy.
His son James Symington served in the U.S. House from Missouri's Second Congressional District from 1969 to 1977.
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 Attorney Stuart Symington, Gallop Johnson & Neuman LC, Clayton, Missouri
Symington is a former civilian aide to the Secretary of the Army, Chairman of the Missouri Committee for Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve, and a former trustee of the Association of the United States Army.
Symington has counseled major corporate clients in matters involving contracts, mergers and acquisitions, legislative and government relations, securities, taxation, complex litigation and real estate acquisition and redevelopment projects.
Symington is admitted to practice in Missouri, before the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, and the Eighth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
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 stuart symington by James olson
Stuart Symington is the first full-length biography of one of Missouri's most influential and effective twentieth-century political leaders.
Symington was the first secretary of the air force and a four- term senator from Missouri.
Well written and exhaustively researched, Stuart Symington: A Life provides a comprehensive portrait of Symington and his exceptional career, shedding new light on presidential administrations from Truman to Nixon, the Department of Defense, the Korean War, and Vietnam.
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 Stuart Symington
Symington had a hands-on management style; he walked the production lines, exhorting his workers to remember that every turret they built saved American lives.
Although Symington listened to his military staff, he left no doubt that he was unquestionably the boss.
Symington had always said that he did not want the vice presidency but was persuaded to accept.
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 PLWeb Document Display   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
John Dowd, Symington's Washington lawyer, said the $30 million invested by Southwest was repaid in 1988 when Shimizu Land Corp., a Japanese company, bought into the project.
Gary Stuart, Symington's Phoenix attorney, said the governor has maintained all along that there was no loss on the investment.
Symington also is believed to be the target of a federal criminal investigation of his activities while a Southwest director.
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 Stuart Symington: biography and encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
William Stuart Symington (June 26, EHandler: no quick summary.
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His son James Symington served in the U.S. House[Follow this hyperlink for a summary of this subject] from Missouri's Second Congressional District[For more info, click on this link] from 1969 to 1977.
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 Stuart Symington   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
SYMINGTON, William Stuart (Stuart), (father of James Wadsworth Symington, son-in-law of James...
William Stuart Symington was born in Amherst, Massachusetts on 26th June, 1901.
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 Truman Library - Stuart Symington Oral History Interview
SYMINGTON: I had a great-great-uncle, I think, who was commander of Jefferson Barracks around the War of 1812; and I had another great-uncle who lived for some years in St. Joseph, Missouri.
SYMINGTON: In the White House, I was fond of Charlie Murphy.
SYMINGTON: I never thought he was the right man for the job, because he had characteristics, not the right characteristics, for a chief executive.
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 Cold War Strategist: Stuart Symington and the Search for National Security   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Symington’s approach to foreign affairs, including Vietnam, was always win or withdraw but never half-step.
Also, although her argument is that Symington became disenchanted with covert activity over time, she specifically says that his shocked reaction at public revelations about CIA wrongdoing during the Nixon-era secret wars in Laos and Cambodia was at least in part a pose.
Symington was one of the originators of the "missile gap" charge that Kennedy played so well against Nixon in 1960.
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 Fife Symington III   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Symington left office in 1997 after being convicted on bank fraud charges.
Symington is a cousin of Stuart Symington, a former Democrat Senator from Missouri.
On February 4, 2005, in an interview with the ''Arizona Republic'', Symington expressed interest in running for Governor of Arizona in 2006, setting the state political landscape abuzz.
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 UFO Area The Death of James Forrestal"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
By now, Symington and Attorney General Tom Clark were feeding stories to journalist Drew Pearson, in particular that Forrestal complained of "being followed by Jews or Zionist agents." Forrestal accused Clark of having the FBI shadow him, which Clark denied, but which according to all of Forrestal’s biographers could well have been true.
What Symington said is not known, but Forrestal emerged from the ride deeply upset, even traumatized, upon arrival at his office.
At least one senior military person linked Symington to a type of UFO "control group," and that was General Arthur Exon, former base commander of Wright-Patterson AFB, in an interview he gave in 1990.
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 Stuart Symington - TheBestLinks.com - Harry S. Truman, John F. Kennedy, Texas, United States Senate, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
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Symington served in the United States Senate from 1953 to December, 1976 as a Democrat.
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 WHMC-Columbia--Fike, Stanley R. (1913-1989), Papers, c.1925, 1941-1985 (C3882)--INVENTORY
In 1952 Stuart Symington selected Fike to be, first, manager of his campaign for the U. Senate, and then, his administrative assistant, a post Fike held for 24 years.
Instead, it concentrates on the particular elections in which Symington was a candidate, with the bulk of the material pertaining to the 1960 Presidential and the 1970 Missouri Senatorial elections.
Most of the photographs in the Stuart Symington series were taken around 1970, and present the Senator in a variety of settings.
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 Company News On Call
Stuart was chairman of Dean Witter Council of Management Advisors, a division of Dean Witter Investment Banking.
Allen E. Symington, 58, is Vice President, Finance of Simpson Timber Investment Company, a privately owned, Seattle based holding company which owns timberlands, lumber, plywood and door operations, and pulp and paper operations in the United States, as well as fast growth forests and a joint venture mill in Latin America.
Symington is currently Vice Chairman of the Washington State Employees Retirement Board, Treasurer of the Washington State Republican Party and a board member of Enterprises International, a company which owns companies which produce manufacturing equipment for the pulp and paper industry throughout the world.
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 Conspiracy?
Symington claimed at that time that the Air Force could not afford to support any new aircraft companies on its declining post-war budget, and that unless Northrop agreed to the merger, the flying wing bomber would not be built at all.
There had been rumors in the press that Secretary Symington had been tapped to be the head of the new firm that would have been created from the merger of Convair and Northrop.
Symington later went on to serve in the US Senate for 24 years, and he unsuccessfully ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1960.
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 Stuart Symington: Biography
In 1952 Symington was elected to the Senate.
Symington served in the Senate until his resignation on 27th December, 1976.
Something may happen to you, and Symington is far too shallow a puddle for the United States to dive into.
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 PLWeb Document Display
His cousin, Stuart Symington, was a Democratic U.S. senator from Missouri and his father, John Fife Jr., was a repeatedly unsuccessful Republican congressional candidate from Baltimore.
Ann Symington has maintained that those funds, as her sole and separate property, cannot be used to repay her husband's debts from failed real estate ventures.
It is not just Ann Symington's money that has helped finance the governor's campaigns; her parents, too, have contributed through the years, despite what several friends have described as a distant and uncomfortable relationship with their son-in-law.
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 Stuart Symington   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
This weblog is used as a record of the research of Stuart G. Towns in the field of Educational Technology and Media, especially focusing in Southeast Asia.
The Stuart School is an AACSB accredited school that has developed industry-based graduate programs to provide expertise in newly emerging areas of finance, business, and technology management.
Robert Stuart is a bassist in the greater Portland area.
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 Books : Stuart Symington: A Life - Cheap   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Stuart Symington: A Life by: James C. Olson
This is the first full-length biography of Stuart Symington (1901-1988), Democrat from Missouri and one of the most significant political leaders of the middle part of the twentieth century.
Born in Amherst, Massachusetts, Symington was educated at Yale University.
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 WHMC-Columbia--Symington, W. Stuart (1901-1988), Papers, 1918-1995 (C3874)--INVENTORY
The Stuart Symington Papers were donated to the University of Missouri by the Senator on May 25, 1973 (Accession No. 3916).
William Stuart Symington was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, on June 26, 1901, to William Stuart Symington, a Baltimore, Maryland lawyer and former professor of Romance Languages at Amherst College, and his wife, Emily Haxall Harrison Symington also of Baltimore.
The couple had two sons, William Stuart Symington, Jr., a lawyer in St. Louis, and James Wadsworth Symington, former Congressman from Missouri and a lawyer in Washington, D.C. Symington entered public service with an appointment as chairman of the Surplus Property Board in Washington, D.C. and was Surplus Property Administrator from 1945 to 1946.
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