Word: adlai
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...pattern of what he would say and do, but he kept in close touch with the White House and Republican National Committee headquarters in Washington. Only twice did Washington's Republican strategists prompt him on major matters: once to suggest that he get a little rougher with Adlai Stevenson, once to urge him to drop his valid point that free-enterprise technological advances will one day lead to a four-day work week in the U.S. It was a tough point to get across, and some Administration and G.O.P. brasshats thought it sounded like a commitment by the Eisenhower...
...lifting act" for his line that "every man can hold up Dwight Eisenhower to his children as a man who has faith in God, faith in America and who has restored dignity and respect to the highest office in the land," and "the bush-leaguer" for his assertion that "Adlai Stevenson just isn't in the same league with President Eisenhower...
...Stature. By last week Campaigner Nixon had good reason to know that all of his effort had paid off. On his third and final swing, he rolled through Michigan on a special train drawing bigger crowds than Adlai Stevenson had drawn along the same route a week earlier. They were warm crowds; newsmen could find no trace of "that anti-Nixon feeling." There were 2,200 at the railroad station in Lansing, 5,000 at Battle Creek, 2,500 at Kalamazoo (about twice the crowd Stevenson drew) and 2,000 at Niles. Across Lake Michigan, in Chicago's Loop...
...stage of his 1956 campaign, Nixon clearly saw the makings of a big Eisenhower sweep, and he was hopeful that it would be big enough to pull a Republican majority into the House of Representatives. (On the Senate he wasn't guessing.) Quick to sense the weakness of Adlai Stevenson's H-bomb proposal (it attempts to hit Eisenhower where he is strongest), Nixon set out to tie it to Democratic candidates for Congress. His challenge: "In view of the terrible danger this program presents, it is time for all candidates for national office to stand...
...Manchester; it opposed Britain's entry into World War I. Under Wadsworth the paper, a nonprofit-making trust, switched its support from Labor to Tories as it deemed fit, fought British policy on Cyprus and Suez, roasted the U.S. for McCarthyism. It is a strong supporter of Adlai Stevenson, is cool toward the Eisenhower Administration and often angrily critical...