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Many campaign-hardened Illinois Democrats wagged their heads sadly four years ago when Adlai Ewing Stevenson was picked by their leaders as the party's candidate for governor. A socialite lawyer with a quiet conversational manner, Stevenson was an amateur in practical politics, and he seemed to have no promise as a colorful campaigner. Furthermore, he had been away from the state for nearly seven years on Federal Government jobs. Although five generations of Stevensons had lived in Illinois, he was sure to be labeled a striped-pants product of Washington. But he soon soothed the professionals' fears...
...again quieted the Democratic quivers. He announced that he will run for governor again, and for good measure added a deft campaign statement: "I invite the Republican Party to nominate the best man it can find. It is of little importance whether the next governor of Illinois is named Adlai Stevenson, but it is of highest importance that we finish what we have started. No matter who loses then, the people will...
...Illinois' able, freewheeling Governor Adlai Stevenson, not to be stampeded, commented: "The Tribune is entitled to its views about the world, but pray God they don't prevail now any more than they did in 1863, when the publisher said we could not win the Civil...
...wish that Governor Dever had had the courage Governor Adlai Stevenson of Illinois who vetoed the same type of a hill last year...
...Governor Adlai Stevenson, who for more than a year has been warring on slot machines in Illinois, last week threw a handful of lemons at fraternal and veterans' organizations and private clubs which keep slot machines on their premises. He said that such clubs operate 93% of the 1,783 machines in southern Illinois. Then, in a speech to the County Bar Association in Springfield, he went on to point a moral considerably more important than slot machines. "I know all the arguments about 'the slot machine in the country club is one thing and the slot machine...