Word: conventionalized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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North Carolina (36) : Thirty-two for Stevenson, one for Harriman, one for Symington, 1½ undecided-and the hardest-dying one-half vote in the convention for Estes Kefauver.
Tennessee (32): Now the unit-rule delegation need not even give Tennessean Kefauver a "courtesy" vote (though Estes is a convention delegate). Under the leadership of Governor Frank Clement, the convention keynoter, 32 for Stevenson.
In the two-month wait between the primaries and the real preliminaries of election year 1956, the U.S. voter had a little trouble keeping his eyes open. The U.S. was at peace, its people were more prosperous than ever, President Eisenhower was on the mend, and moderation was the spirit...
Harry Truman will never have seen anything quite like the 1956 convention, which should bug even Chicago's convention-jaded eyes. Into the city, beginning late this week, will stream up to 20,000 conventiongoers, led by 2,477 delegates and 1,850 alternates, to jam hotels and motels...
Seats for Thoughts. Oldtime Democrats, accustomed to their party's brawling, disorganized conventions of old, may think for a while that they have walked into the wrong building. Gone will be the traditional broad center aisle, scene of many a wild parade and impromptu caucus; instead, in the interests...