Word: adlai
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...York's Mayor Robert Wagner promised a million-vote margin for Kennedy in his city; and sure enough, Kennedy was coming close to that (Adlai got a mere 92,000 plurality in 1956). Philadelphia not only smashed Roosevelt's all-time record high of 1936, but suburban Upper Darby voted for a Democratic presidential candidate for the first time in history. Baltimore's decisive plurality for Kennedy gave him Maryland...
...Candidate Adlai Stevenson, trying to describe the difference between himself and the man he was introducing, Candidate Jack Kennedy, put it poignantly to an East Los Angeles rally last week: "Do you remember that in classical times when Cicero had finished speaking, the people said, 'How well he spoke'-but when Demosthenes had finished speaking, the people said, 'Let us march...
...answer to Miss Furness' question seemed to be only a hesitant "Yes" at the Young Democrat party at Harkness Commons. Several signs saying "I was for Adlai but now I'm for Jack" were prominently displayed, and a black glove was hung over a campaign poster for the defeated Rep. William H. Meyer of Vermont...
...secret," wrote the liberal Democratic New York Post, that before the Los Angeles convention it "advocated the nomination of Adlai Stevenson. [But] in a world that so often seems to be living on borrowed time, we cannot afford the luxury of a great national mistake, nor insist on perfection in the candidate we support . . . We are for Kennedy...
...Detroit, Comic Mort Sahl mused: "It wasn't Kennedy who made the real rebuttal to Norman Vincent Peale and those Protestant ministers. It was Adlai Stevenson when he was in St. Paul. Adlai said he found St. Paul appealing and Peale appalling." Then he added: "These can't be the original candidates-they must be the road company." ¶ In Los Angeles, the newest bumper strip rejoices: "BE THANKFUL ONLY...