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Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., 37, took on the national chairmanship of the Harriman for President Committee. F.D.R.'s third son is also a candidate for re-election as U.S. Representative from New York's 20th District. As Harriman's manager, he has the powerful Harry Truman-Adlai Stevenson wing of the party solidly behind his candidate. He was airily confident last week that Harriman will be a shoo-in for the nomination by convention time. Said he, flashing the familiar family smile: "I've never been in on a losing political race...
...Massachusetts primary, the University produced its own Presidential nominations, giving Governor Adlai Stevenson an overwhelming lead on the Democratic ballot and General Dwight D. Eisenhower a sweeping victory on the Republican side in the Harvard Liberal Union Presidential Poll...
...there was every indication that Adlai Stevenson's no really meant no. Despite the pressure turned on by well-wishers from all over the U.S., he feels that he is committed to run for re-election as governor, that he still has a job to do in Illinois, that he owes a first loyalty to the friends he has persuaded to accept public office during his term at Springfield. He is determined not to let the state slip back under the control of ex-Governor Dwight Green's Republican machine. Besides, he is not certain that...
...noes-Harry Truman's and Adlai Stevenson's-still echoed through Democratic ranks last week as the party faithful gathered at the Waldorf for the great New York clambake. The affair was officially billed as a $100-a-plate testimonial dinner honoring Mutual Security Administrator W. Averell Harriman and launching him as a presidential candidate. It was also a prime Democratic livestock show, with all the prize specimens on display. But one measure of the Democrats' dazed condition was the fact that the blue ribbon went to Stevenson, who had just strolled out of the pasture...
...smiling Adlai Stevenson got the biggest ovation of any speaker, and promptly touched on the party's unhappy state. "I think I have the answer to all of our perplexities here tonight," he said, and read from a letter he had received that afternoon: "Honorable Governor Stevenson . . . You should marry Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt and you should run for the presidential nomination and put Mrs. Roosevelt on the ticket for Vice President and you will go over big." Said Stevenson: "Now I propose to send this message to Mrs. Roosevelt with the respectful comment that I think...