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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After watching the staid, wellrehearsed, self-satisfied delegates of the Republican Convention, I can hardly wait to cast my very first vote with that motley crew of rowdy Democrats.
Don Connery, who has been a correspondent in our Chicago bureau, first met the tall Tennesseean when they piled into a small plane together early last winter for a Wisconsin primary campaign tour. He covered the Senator during most of the primaries, stayed with him through the Democratic Convention in...
That placed Candidate Dwight Eisenhower farther ahead than he was at the start of the 1952 campaign, when the first post-convention sampling gave Eisenhower 50%, Stevenson 43%, and left 7% undecided. When the popular vote was counted in November, Eisenhower received 54.9%, Stevenson 44.4%. If the present undecided 7...
Cheers & Boos. Taking Running Mate Estes Kefauver aboard, Stevenson cruised next day to Los Angeles, where his attack on the Administration's defense and foreign policies was roundly booed by some of the 5,000 delegates and guests at the American Legion's national convention. The Legion listened...
Reported engaged to Presidential Candidate Adlai E. Stevenson, Mrs. Dorothy Vredenburgh, a handsome Alabama widow and secretary to the National Democratic Convention in Chicago, coyly suggested to inquiring reporters: "You better ask Adlai." Asked, Adlai gallantly replied: "I was never more flattered, but unfortunately there is no truth to it...