Word: adlai
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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ILLINOIS. Adlai Stevenson, 48, quietly able socialite lawyer, former United Nations delegate, grandson and namesake of Cleveland's Vice President, dethroned the Republicans' two-term Governor Dwight Green, whose administration he had assailed as rotten with graft and corruption...
...doubt that arch-isolationist Senator "Curly" Brooks would easily defeat the Democrats' leftish Paul Douglas, who ignored the party regulars, doggedly waged a futile one-man campaign from his station-wagon jeep. But the Republicans' handsome playboy, Governor Dwight Green, was facing real opposition from political amateur Adlai Stevenson (TIME, March 8).Backed by the nominally independent (but actually pro-Republican) Chicago Daily News, with the full support of other papers as far away as the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Candidate Stevenson was hitting hard at graft, shakedowns and kickbacks in the state administration. Cried the News...
...disturbance was not squelched. Directly under the rostrum, Chicago Boss Jake Arvey and Adlai Stevenson, candidate for governor of Illinois, continued to yell at the chair. California's hulking Chairman Jack Shelley, an ex-University of San Francisco football tackle, plunged up the aisle to the platform, roaring for recognition. They all wanted it to be announced that their delegations had voted against Mississippi. On the platform Shelley barked into the ear of Sergeant at Arms Leslie Biffle: "You'd better not cut the mikes on us tomorrow when we start talking on civil rights...
Illinois' machine-hardened Democrats quivered with trepidation last week when their gentlemanly candidate for governor, Lawyer-Diplomat Adlai E. Stevenson (TIME, Jan. 12), trundled off to Bloomington to open his primary campaign. They needn't have been so nervous...
Rueful Laugh. Though Boss Arvey's candidates were political newcomers, they were newcomers who might be more promising than many a well-known party hack. His men: Adlai Stevenson, 47, the U.S.'s alternate delegate to the U.N., who will run against shopworn Governor Dwight H. Green; and Paul Douglas, 55, University of Chicago professor of economics, who will try to unhorse rabble-rousing Senator C. Wayland Brooks...