Word: adlai
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About the McCarthy issue, which underlay so much of what Adlai Stevenson said, Nixon made no direct comment. But the meeting's whole tone was anti-McCarthy. The Vice President said that the Administration, through Attorney General Herbert Brownell and FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover, are "smashing the Communist conspiracy to bits." When New York's Governor Thomas E. Dewey praised Nixon as a Communist fighter "who got results, not just headlines," applause swelled through the ballroom...
...board chairman of Poetry: a Magazine of Verse, Ellen Borden Stevenson, ex-wife of Adlai Stevenson, functions as deficit sponge and guardian angel to Chicago's spindly poetic colony and to artists in general. So vigorous a patroness is Mrs. Stevenson that no cultural gathering in the city is considered quite legitimate unless she is on hand...
...Adlai Stevenson was not present because of "a geological expedition into my interior," his way of explaining an operation for kidney stones. But Harry Truman was. Off the cuff, Harry cracked jokes for ten minutes and, turning serious, warned: "We can't have the friendship of the free world if we are going to insult our friends and allies...
...senate killed a proposed amendment to its constitution, arguing that the change would increase the Negro vote. In contrast, Gov. James F. Byrnes of South Carolina and Gov. Christian A. Herter '15 of Massachusetts have recommended that their legislatures start constitutional amending procedures to permit lowering the age. And Adlai Stevenson, when he was running for the Illinois Governorship in 1948, also advocated the 18 year old vote...
Making plans to hang out his lawyer's shingle in Chicago this fall, Adlai Stevenson was troubled again by his old kidney ailment, canceled several speeches, eased himself into a Chicago hospital bed, early this week had a successful operation...