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When the dust of the political tornado in Minnesota had finally blown away last week, it left the Democratic donkey standing there without a head. Minnesota had unseated Adlai Stevenson, but it had not enthroned Estes Kefauver...
...national convention tries to reach a compromise between North and South, Adlai Stevenson might still have a chance. Or there could be a new compromise candidate, perhaps Missouri's Senator Stuart Symington, Texas' Senator Lyndon Johnson, or Ohio's Governor Frank Lausche. These and other names, e.g., Pennsylvania's Governor George Leader and New Jersey's Governor Robert Meyner, were being rolled around in the vacuum...
...listening carefully enough to catch the threat in his tone. To almost every question, the Tennessee Senator's answer was a capsule of political skill, and his comment about the Minnesota primary was perhaps the best of all. Would he go into Minnesota, asked a reporter, and face Adlai Stevenson...
...Chicago pending a return campaign trip to Minnesota, Adlai Stevenson, who had hoped to surprise Kefauver in New Hampshire, made the best of the shutout. Said he: "I am surprised and pleased by the large vote cast for me in New Hampshire." Less enthusiastic was New Hampshire's Democratic National Committeeman Henry Sullivan, who won with...
Flailing at Nixon from Eveleth, Minn., Democrat Adlai Stevenson last week echoed a familiar, false criticism of U.S. capitalism, namely, that it feeds on disaster and thrives on war. Said Stevenson: "When the President seemed to reopen the door for Richard, I heard on the radio that the stock market reacted to Vice President Nixon's improved political fortunes by going up a few points. I don't, as I say, know exactly what this means- but I do recall that the market normally rises in the face of a declaration of war or other national calamity...