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...less than that of 1952 and represented 32% of the state's eligible voters, as compared to the 43% turnout in the hotly contested 1952 primary. Unopposed on the ballot of the presidential preference section, Kefauver received 21,701 votes against 3,806 write-ins for Adlai Stevenson, who was not officially entered and did not campaign in the state. Far more important to Kefauver, he won all twelve of New Hampshire's Democratic delegate places (eight of the delegates will have only a half-vote each at the convention) over candidates listed as favorable to Stevenson...
Three leading faculty members were unanimous last night in de-emphasizing the importance of Estes Kefauver's resounding victory over Adlai Stevenson in the Minnesota Democratic primary last Tuesday...
...Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner in Detroit's Masonic Temple, Adlai Stevenson struck fire to the new issue: the na ture of the presidency and its relationship to Dwight Eisenhower's health...
Seven times in two years the American Institute of Public Opinion's George Gallup has deployed polltakers across the land to ask: "If President Eisenhower were the Republican candidate and Adlai Stevenson were the Democratic candidate, which would you like to see win?" Last week Gallup reviewed the seven polls, found that Eisenhower since 1954 has slowly broadened the gap. A year and a half ago, 53% of decided voters were for him. In his latest poll, taken just before Ike announced his availability, Gallup found 66% of decided voters for Ike, 34% for Adlai. Concluded Gallup...
...delegates heard Democratic National Chairman Paul Butler and Pennsylvania's Republican Representative Hugh Scott. Scott outlined the progress of the U.S. Negro under the Eisenhower Administration, e.g., completion of desegregation in the armed forces, desegregated dinners at the White House. Answering Adlai Stevenson's call for desegregation by 1963, Scott concluded: "The time to meet injustice is not [in] 1963, because it happens to be the 100th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. The time to meet injustice...