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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Republicans were quick to point out that there are two sides to the issue, that the leading Democratic candidates have had their own bouts with illness and the surgeon's knife. In the past four years, Adlai Stevenson had had four stints in hospitals: for removal of a kidney stone...
Last week, before the convention of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Hat Workers Union in Manhattan, Harriman (who had been calling himself a not-active candidate) threw an old grey fedora into news cameras and cried: "I want to say to you that this hat is in the ring - this is a...
Now, by telephone and travel, McKinney, De Sapio and other Harriman strategists will spread out a national net in an effort to pull in delegates for Harriman. The candidate himself will plunge promptly into open campaigning, is touted to make a big splash at the Governors' Conference in Atlantic...
Jacob M. Arvey, 60, of Chicago, Illinois National Committeeman, longtime power in state and national politics, the man who successfully plotted the course to Stevenson's 1952 nomination. Though Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley now marshals Illinois convention votes, Arvey will be tapped at convention, time as another...
With primaries done and cajoling begun, the leaders of the Democratic Party (formerly known as bosses) have stepped up their traveling, telephoning and lapel grabbing in search of additional convention votes. When delegates converge on Chicago in August to nominate a President, their decisions will be tempered by what these...