Word: favored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...compliment you on the outstanding painting for your July 16 cover? Apart from my strong personal prejudice in favor of your subject, I, as a painter, am intensely appreciative of the very fine work by your artist James Chapin...
...primaries, said Estes; Stevenson had polled "over 600,000 votes more than I." Since Estes did not want to see a deadlock at the convention (and, by inference, the possible victory of someone who was not a veteran of the primary wars), he was withdrawing in Stevenson's favor. There were "no deals." He hoped that his delegates (estimated at 260 by Kefauver, at 200 by others) would go along with...
South Dakota (8): Kefauver won the primary; the delegation is looking for a new man, with a majority seeming to favor Harriman, despite the pro-Stevenson influence of Native Son Hubert Humphrey, presently of Minnesota...
...minimize dull spots, convention machinery will grind faster. Promised Democratic Chairman Paul Butler: "We are planning a brisk, businesslike affair." ¶ The familiar red-white-blue bunting has been discarded in favor of "simple, dignified, and at the same time, traditional" decor, predominantly TV blue...
...disappointed in his presidential passion, his daily feuds with such as Joe McCarthy grown pale and wan, Stassen, at 49, felt the need to fare forth in quest of new political ad ventures. Last week he fared forth. He urged that the G.O.P. dump Vice President Richard Nixon in favor of Massachusetts' Governor Christian A. Herter...