Word: adlai
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...WANT ADLAI STEVENSON TO BE PRESIDENT, AND WE WOULD SIT ON OUR HANDS FOR DAYS IF IT MEANT THAT MORE PEOPLE COULD HEAR THE UNINTERRUPTED VOICE OF AMERICA'S FUTURE...
...Hands for Adlai...
...some rustling in the church. In Manhattan Vice President Richard Nixon was the honor guest and principal speaker at the black-tie Lincoln Day Dinner of the National Republican Club. Nixon seized the occasion for the highest-powered G.O.P. attack on the leading Democratic presidential candidates to date. Adlai Stevenson, Tennessee's Senator Estes Kefauver and New York's Governor Averell Harriman are "three candidates in search of a crisis," said he. Then, singling out Front Runner Stevenson, Nixon added: "Unless he changes his present course, it will begin to look as if the state which gave...
...Adlai Stevenson halted his political tour of the Northwest long enough for a two-day breather last week at snowbound Timberline Lodge on the slopes of Washington's Mt. Hood. On his last day he and five friends ventured out for a quick tour of the area in a Sno-Cat tractor. Half a mile from the lodge, the tractor suddenly crashed over the brink of a 35-ft. snow canyon, turned completely over, dented its aluminum top and landed on its tracks on a snowbank. By great good luck, nobody was scratched...
...Boise, Idaho, after Vice President Nixon had claimed G.O.P. credit for the Supreme Court's desegregation decision (see above), Adlai shifted his fire to the Democrats' favorite target. Nixon, he said acidly, "is an all-purpose politician who can proclaim an old Democratic program as good when it wears a new Republican label, and denounce it as socialism at the same time.'' In Salt Lake City he said: "Warren is no more a Republican Chief Justice than the seven members who were appointed under previous Administrations are Democratic Justices. These nine men jointly performed their duty...