Word: chicago
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Egged on by an enterprising photographer, a slim blonde airlines clerk walked hesitantly toward New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller, holding up a small toy elephant for his autograph. In the midst of a smile and a wave as he left his Convair at Chicago's Midway Airport, Rocky suddenly froze when he saw her. Throwing up a defensive hand and moving away, he brusquely set the tone of an uncertain week: "I'd not like to stress anything political. I'm sorry...
Officially, Rockefeller was in Chicago to attend a Governors' Conference committee meeting on a serious subject that he takes seriously: the urgent need for civil defense fallout shelters (TIME, July 20). But a glance at his two-day schedule was ample evidence that he was also embarked on his first major political foray outside New York, a fact that made his tenseness all the more noticeable. At a first-day press conference in the Shoreland Hotel ballroom he irritated reporters by parrying the political questions. Finally a newsman asked if he was trying to duck questions about his presidential...
Rocky's problem of staking out issues, without appearing to be at odds with the Eisenhower Administration, began to show itself in Chicago. Implicit in his invocation of "a spirit that rises above the cliches and controversies of crude partisanship" was his reach for a position that might reveal him as a friend to Democrats as well as Republicans. For his pains the Chicago Tribune called him a "crypto-New Dealer," warned that his economic and social philosophy is "far closer to 'liberal' Democratic than to traditionally Republican doctrine." Less harsh, yet frankly skeptical, was the judgment...
...Lyndon Johnson's candidacy. ¶ In Peoria, Ill., Lawyer Stephen Mitchell, Democratic National Committee chairman during Adlai Stevenson's 1952 campaign, announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for Governor of Illinois, even though he faces a head-on collision with the state's Democratic boss, Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley, or Daley's candidate for the nomination. ¶In Philadelphia, Harold Stassen, who eleven years ago was a red-hot prospect for the Republican presidential nomination, got an unbrotherly, unloving cut in his campaign for mayor of Philadelphia, when the Bulletin and the Inquirer...
...ordained minister of the United Lutheran Church, the Rev. Sittler is now professor of theology at the University of Chicago. Previously, he held a professorship at the Chicago Lutheran Seminary and served for 13 years as a pastor in Cleveland, Ohio...