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...Adlai E. Stevenson. Now that he has gone down to defeat for his second time, he still remains the man who will not be forgotten by Americans and peoples of other nations for a long time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 3, 1956 | 12/3/1956 | See Source »

...smug claim to omniscience is so damn nauseating. Eisenhower-Nixon's re-election meant that "a new political generation had come of age with promising concepts of how Government ought to be run." I'm happy to be associated with those apostles of error in Government affairs: Adlai Stevenson, John Kennedy, George Kennan and Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 3, 1956 | 12/3/1956 | See Source »

Defeated presidential candidate Adlai E. Stevenson has been appointed to the special top-level Democratic advisory committee to frame legislative proposals, he revealed yesterday...

Author: By Adam Clymer, | Title: Stevenson Invited to Join Party Strategy Committee | 12/3/1956 | See Source »

...three years of publication, the Democratic Digest has served mostly as a canape tray laden with fancily garnished political tidbits. Adlai Stevenson's egghead followers thought it had the flavor of real caviar. But most ordinary folks considered it just plain fish eggs-and rancid at that. Result: the Digest lost $200,000 in struggling toward a monthly circulation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Eggheads, Go Home | 11/26/1956 | See Source »

...However, I predict the Eisenhower Administration will dust off various public works plans reminiscent of Harold Ickes' PWA days. Congress will vote a very modest tax relief for low-income groups only. In midwinter President Eisenhower will announce that he will not run again. On the Democratic side, Adlai Stevenson will get the nomination; but Harry Truman, once bitter against Senator Kefauver, this time will throw his weight to Kefauver for Vice President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Here Is My Prediction | 11/26/1956 | See Source »

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