Word: adlai
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...Phrasemaker Stevenson, the phrase was trite, but it was true. On that morning last March the political figure of Adlai Stevenson, hit hard in Minnesota by Estes Kefauver, was lying flat on the canvas, and the count was almost up to ten. Many a knowing politician and political reporter thought that Candidate Stevenson might never get up. But he did, and the fight that he began that day turned into a dramatic political comeback. Last week, with a decisive victory in California's Democratic presidential primary, won after a hard fight, Stevenson was once again the front-runner...
While he was strongly helped by the support of almost every important organization Democrat in the state (which he also had in Minnesota), Adlai made a stack of political hay on his own by spending more time with the people and less with the phrases, by lightening and brightening his speeches, and by rubbing more elbows. Still sensitive and a little selfconscious, Stevenson was not completely at home in his new campaign methods, and at times he was embarrassed. In Los Angeles' Pershing Square, for example, he approached an old man sitting on a bench and said...
...primaries signaled the start of a whole new battle in the struggle for the Democratic nomination, a struggle of political maneuver that would go on right down to the final ballot in Chicago. Already the kingmakers (see box) were at work. In this new phase of the fight, Adlai Stevenson faced one main adversary: New York's Governor Averell Harriman...
Frank E. McKinney, 52, Indianapolis banker, Harry Truman's hand-picked choice as Democratic National Chairman until he was ousted by the Stevensonites in 1952. He is convinced that Adlai is far from the popular choice, that the U.S. is a gold mine of unpanned Harriman strength, and he will be with Harriman until the bitter end. His battle cry to Harriman agents: "Don't sit back and let nature take its course; there is work to be done...
Walter Reutker, 48, vice president of the A.F.L.-C.I.O., president of its United Auto Workers, another 1952 Stevenson backer. Reuther has taken no official stand this year, is presumed still to like Adlai. But his anti-moderate attitude on civil rights sounds more and more like Harriman. Says Reuther: "Citizen Walter Reuther will not support the Democratic Party nationally if that party attempts to be all things to all men on civil rights...