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Pipes of Peace. Next day, representatives of two groups which had favored Democrat Adlai Stevenson during the campaign came in to smoke the peace pipe. First in were ten C.I.O. leaders; when the hour-long talk was over, C.I.O. Secretary-Treasurer James Carey cormmended Ike for a "very intelligent discussion" of the Taft-Hartley Act, then added with conscious irony that ever since its establishment the C.I.O. had enjoyed good relations with the occupant of the White House and that it hoped to continue on the same footing. (Only occupants of the White House since the C.I.O.'s birth...
...Bill Doak, he favors unification of the A.F.L. and C.I.O., thinks the Taft-Hartley law can "be amended to satisfy labor and no doubt satisfy employers as well." His appointment, said he, came as a "complete surprise." Reason: he is a Democrat, voted for (but did not campaign for) Adlai Stevenson...
Anyway, some of us here are trying to persuade our readers in Britain and the Commonwealth to get the election result in proper perspective. And not all of us went overboard in forecasting victory for Adlai Stevenson. Rene MacColl, of the Daily Express, certainly did not; and one week before the election, my column in the Daily Mail and its syndicated newspapers said: "I now have a hunch, if not a deep conviction, that Eisenhower is going to win this election...
...There Adlai Stevenson was put up in a restored, 200-year-old building which had been converted from a church into a cottage. For the next five days he planned to sleep, lie in the sun, ride, play some tennis ("I'm also an ex-tennis player," he quipped), and hunt duck and deer across the border. When four reporters and two photographers showed up for a press conference two days after his arrival, he was asleep. They waited until he appeared, still looking a little drawn and weary, dressed in a five-gallon hat, sport shirt, blue jeans...
...quotation which Adlai Stevenson used for a laugh in a campaign speech...