Word: adlai
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...Detroit's Brodhead Naval Armory last week, after a round of campaigning for his party's candidates in home-state Illinois, went Adlai Stevenson, titular leader of the Democratic Party. In his Detroit speech were the usual Stevenson quips and quibbles, but also there-and available for Democrats everywhere to hang onto-was a hard and fast line: 1) the Republican Administration, on its record, has permitted the domestic economy to become stagnant and has caused the U.S. to lose prestige abroad, and 2) only a Democratic Congress can make things right...
ASSUMING that [Adlai] Stevenson is employing the [present] Congressional campaign as a springboard to the Democratic renomination for President two years hence, it seems obvious that a Democratic Congress would spend the next two years in trying to persuade the voters not only that the Republican party is unfit to govern but also that the President is a failure as Chief Executive and party leader and has permitted "Big Business" to take over the country. This strategy, indeed, is already apparent in the campaign overtures sounded by all Democratic leaders...
...curly brown hair, and a gentle, bemused manner that appeals especially to women. He describes himself as "neither a New Deal nor a Fair Deal Democrat, but a Maine Democrat." nonetheless keeps a watercolor portrait of a caped Franklin Roosevelt behind his office chair, believes devoutly in Adlai Stevenson, and does not argue when friends characterize him as a "Democrat-idealist...
Behind the curtain of serenity there was the sound of scuffling among the Democrats. Steve Mitchell's private choice for the man to succeed him as national chair man after the elections is Indiana's Paul Butler. Since Butler also has the blessing of Adlai Stevenson, he is an odds-on bet to get the job-a political fact that intensely irks Butler's fellow Hoosier, ex-Chairman Frank McKinney. In a vengeful mood McKinney leaked a story that Mitchell's big, $100-a-plate fund-raising dinner would be a flop, that seats were selling...
Corn from Clem. At the big banquet, in the hot, stuffy Shriners' Murat Temple, Adlai Stevenson, the principal speaker, sweated like a Fourth of July orator. His speech somehow missed the mark with the 1,000 Democratic diners, although Adlai had tried to cut it to their measure. "The Republican Party is so deeply split," he said, "that it cannot pursue consistent policies anywhere . . . Drift, division and demoralization have for 20 months obscured American purposes, discredited American leadership, and heightened the perils and tensions in this tense and perilous world at home and abroad...