Word: adlai
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...until Labor Day it was not so much what Adlai Stevenson said as the way he said it. At Detroit this week the Democratic candidate formally opened his campaign with a speech that contained more meat than sauce. He stepped briskly into the hot fight over the Taft-Hartley law, demanded its repeal and called for a new law based on "five general principles...
...invasion of New York and New Jersey last week, Adlai Stevenson once again displayed his talent for effective oratory. He also proved himself a smart campaign quarterback who mixes his plays astutely...
Whether or not Adlai Stevenson gets into the White House, he seems sure of a place in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations. Though his voice has been to Princeton, and his words occasionally sound Wilsonian, at other times they have the dry crack of a Will Rogers aphorism. Some samples from his speeches last week...
Last week the pupil was outdoing the old master. Adlai Stevenson's refusal to back up Texas claims to tidelands oil (TIME, Sept. 1) has given Shivers a fighting anti-Administration issue which Byrnes lacks in his home state. Shivers is making the most of it. When he announced that he wouldn't vote for Stevenson in November, Texans poured letters in on him at the rate of 1,000 a day, backed him up by an 8-1 margin. Attorney General Price Daniel, now running for the U.S. senatorial seat to be vacated by Tom Connally, also...
...Santa Barbara, Calif., General of the Army George C. Marshall commented on recent tributes from Presidential Candidates Dwight Eisenhower and Adlai Stevenson: "They are both my boys. I sent General Eisenhower to Europe. Governor Stevenson, with me while I was Secretary of State, gave valuable assistance on both the United Nations and our program for economic aid to Europe. My father was a Republican and my mother a Democrat, and my Army service has been so demanding that I have not had time to do much voting or take sides politically...