Word: adlai
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...matter how emphatically Governor Adlai Stevenson says no, many Democratic politicians refuse to believe he isn't saying maybe. With this uncertainty, the Illinois Democratic convention opened last week. After some backroom maneuvering and telephone conferences with the Governor (who was out West making some campaignlike sounds), the convention brought forth a resolution supporting Stevenson for President-if he runs. Then the convention elected 20 delegates-at-large, each with half a vote. (Fifty other delegates, each with one vote, were elected at the Illinois primary last month...
Supra-Political Plane. "I think I understand the governor," said Chicago's Democratic Boss Jacob Arvey. "He is not a candidate ... If, however . . . the nomination [were] given him . . . then no man could say no." Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey announced that Adlai was still "susceptible." New York Post Correspondent William V. Shannon explained that Adlai was just saying no to boost himself up to a "supra-political plane...
...headed West last week to speak at a Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner in Portland, Ore., Illinois' Governor Adlai Stevenson suddenly looked, to wistful brigades of Administration Democrats, like a presidential candidate all over again. He was not only on the ballot in Oregon, but he was traveling 1,900 miles to speak to the voters of the Pacific Northwest. No, cried Adlai, no, no, no, no. This line of reasoning was all a horrible mistake. He had agreed to make the speech months ago, and somebody had slipped his name on the ballot without his consent...
...majority of the delegates at the convention, would he turn them down? Adlai refused to comment. That was all that was needed. By the time he had left Oregon-where he apparently won more votes by refusing them than most candidates get by asking for them-Democratic bigwigs all over the U.S. were reading his mind by remote control, and deciding that he had just hit upon a new method of saying...
This week in California-he had only driven down from Oregon, Adlai kept saying, to see a review of the Illinois National Guard at Camp Cooke-he stubbornly kept saying he was NOT a candidate for President. But for some reason it seemed to make his backers everywhere feel more convinced than ever that the political difference between a no and a yes might be no greater than a maybe...