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...High & Too Long. While the farm situation does not add up to distress, hardly anyone is satisfied with it. The leading Democratic contenders for the presidency, Adlai Stevenson and Averell Harriman, have come out for a return to the old program of rigid price supports for basic farm products at 90% of parity. But few serious students of farm economics, ex politics, would accept that solution...
Herbert Lehman, a popular symbol in New York Democratic politics, last week issued a formal statement: "Many months ago I stated publicly that, of the many well-qualified Democrats available for the nomination, my preference was Adlai Stevenson, and that I expected to support him. I see no reason for any change in my attitude or preference." This did not presage any substantial split in the New York State vote for Harriman, whose coach, Tammany's Carmine De Sapio, will control the 1956 convention delegation. But Lehman's name did give the Stevensonites a beachhead in New York...
...Democrats' Midwest farm conference in Des Moines over the weekend. Harriman made the trip, his first speaking foray into the Midwest since the political season opened, to outline a farm policy based on price supports at 90% of parity-a figure calculated to comfort farmers and discomfit Adlai Stevenson...
Chief Justice Earl Warren 53% Adlai Stevenson...
...Mirror-News also canvassed members of the Democratic State Central Committee and again received more than 200 answers. Of these Democrats, 82% favored Adlai Stevenson for their party's nomination, 9% were for Estes Kefauver and 4% for Averell Harriman. Half expected a California primary fight between Stevenson and Kefauver, and between such slates, 72% were for Stevenson, only 12% for Kefauver...