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...Chicago bank building, Lawyer Adlai Stevenson was found poring over a law book on his first day in a fancy new office. Diligently working now on several cases, Stevenson waved his hand around the big room and explained: "I've got to pay for this conspicuous poverty." His next date with politics: indefinite...
John J. McCloy, former U.S. High Commissioner to Germany, Senator Paul H. Douglas (D-Fl.) and Senator Ralph H. Flanders (R-Vt.) have spoken in the past. Last year Adlai B. Stevenson drew a crowd of 2,000 to Sanders Theater...
Washington focused a lively interest last week on Oregon's Senators. Freshman Dick Neuberger flew in, after lunching in Chicago with Adlai Stevenson, to be festively entertained by Fair-Dealing Columnist Doris Fleeson and, on New Year's Day, by Colleague Wayne Morse. Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, recognizing that Democrats owe Morse their control of the Senate, will give him committee posts as good as or better than the ones from which the Republicans ousted him two years ago. And following his policy of finding at least one good committee berth for each newcomer. Johnson has Neuberger...
...Albany, emerging for a dinner attended by a distinguished gathering of Democrats. Among the guests: Margaret Truman, former Air Secretary Thomas Finletter, two of President Roosevelt's old intimates and speechwriters, ex-Judge Samuel Rosenman and Playwright Robert Sherwood, and William Blair, aide to and ambassador from Adlai Stevenson...
...satisfies the resentments of his followers (both those from the Eastern slums and those from the Western, nouveaux riches) because his sincerest hatred is always against the oldest, most rooted, and most deeply educated patrician families (the Cabot Lodges, Achesons, Conants, Adlai Stevensons). Confining myself to native American growths and not to alien importations like Communism, I would classify McCarthy as the most radically and instinctively leftist dynamite in American history since the I.W.W...