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Thus last week Adlai Stevenson brought his campaign back to the populous, prosperous, vote-heavy states of the industrial Northeast. Everywhere he hitched on gently to the coattails of local Democratic candidates who were manifestly more popular than he; everywhere he besought the voters to choose come November not between men but between parties; everywhere he fingered meticulously for the soft spots of the U.S. economy, talking and implying class struggle...
...against Jews) to Philadelphia, Pa. (where he avoided the Warwick Hotel because of a labor dispute), Vice President Nixon moved across the eastern half of the U.S. last week in the home stretch of his 15,000-mile tour. He scolded an ardent Republican lady who asked questions about Adlai Stevenson's divorce ("I think that any personal life of a candidate should not be a proper political issue"). He sidestepped the political credits and debits of the World Series ("I lean to the Dodgers, but my wife is a Yankee fan"). He pointedly omitted to invite Wisconsin...
...Nixon burgeoned as a distinct G.OP. asset, he began more and more to take on Adlai Stevenson in debate (effectively overlooking Opposite Number Estes Kefauver). "You find corruption in either party," ran the tenor of his argument, "but we clean it up." And again, "Both the parties want to be good to our people, but we start with the individual and work up; they start with the Government and work down." In Philadelphia, Nixon termed Stevenson's stop-the-H-bomb-tests proposal "catastrophic nonsense." In Syracuse, N.Y., he jabbed at the "special-interests" tone of the Democratic campaign...
...contribute the traditional 2% of their salaries to the Democratic campaign fund, 2) help get out the vote. Last week, though he made it a point to greet President Eisenhower on his arrival in Lexington, the jovial Happy pointedly announced that he would have a previous engagement when Adlai Stevenson comes a-calling...
Indeed, Herman will be an important figure not only to the South but as a regional spokesman in that all-embracing organization, the National Democratic Party. This was a point best brought out by Candidate Adlai Stevenson as he swung through the South last spring, drumming up support for his nomination. Said Stevenson of Talmadge, while a house guest at the executive mansion during Herman's regime in Atlanta: "We can agree on a great many more things than we disagree on, and we need one another...