Word: symington
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sentner organized a local at St. Louis' Emerson Electric Manufacturing Co. The following year he led the plant's 2,000 workers in a 53-day sit-down strike, the second longest sit-down in U.S. labor history. But when handsome Stuart Symington (now Secretary of the Air Force) took over as Emerson's president, labor relations began to settle down. Symington and Sentner sized each other up; each found the other a forthright, levelheaded man of his word. Working together, they put into effect a successful labor-management plan and a profit-sharing program. Emerson, swollen...
...action, Congress rejected the recommendations of Defense Secretary James Forrestal, who had suggested a 66-group Air Force and a "balanced" military establishment; e.g., more ground troops to support overseas air bases. Forrestal never made too good a case. Air Secretary Stuart Symington, pleading for the 70-group program, had made his. It was the first time in eight years on the tricky playing fields of Washington that Forrestal had lost the ball on a fumble...
...Gamble. Next day, Secretary of the Air Force W. Stuart Symington appeared, dutifully read a statement endorsing Forrestal's 66-group compromise, then gave it as his opinion that anything less than the modernized, 70-group force would be "gambling with security." The Russians, he declared, have more and better jets than the U.S., a total air force many times 70 groups. Said Symington: "If you don't start building the Air Force now, you won't get it until the Russians have the atomic bomb . . . Time is rapidly running...
Congress listened and immediately began a new debate over the size and shape of the military establishment. The debate centered on Secretary Forrestal's plan for a 55-group Air Force to be kept in "balance" with Army and Navy strength. Air Secretary W. Stuart Symington, exploiting a popular cause, renewed his plea for a 70-group force, and although he knew full well the desperate manpower needs of the ground forces, upped the Air Force demand for men from...
With that, handsome, fast-talking Stu Symington, who had already incurred the Navy's rage for assailing its theories of strategic bombing, had drawn down on himself the wrath of the ground forces. At the end of the week he was a little rueful, feeling that he had overreached himself. He had certainly made it clear that the ideas of the armed services had not been "merged...