Word: finneganisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this campaign. Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., professor of History and Pulitzer Prize winner, would probably serve in the organizing months, at least, of a Democratic Administration. Stevenson's law partners William McCormick Blair and Willard Wirtz would undoubtedly wind up on his White House staff, along with campaign manager Jim Finnegan and press secretary Clayton Fritchey. Estes Kefauver, as Vice President, seems slated for the post of "super-Secretary of Agriculture" if he fails to make himself an effective leader of the Senate. And a newcomer but a long-standing personal friend of Stevenson--Dean Edward S. Mason of the Littauer...
...best in the next week, they say, he can win. The Governor himself said "We're ahead in the doubtful states," while rushing from a television studio yesterday. And his campaign manager, Jim Finnegan, said the race was going "remarkably well" with a "tremendous upsurge" in the last week...
...bomb tests. Some what to his surprise, the proposal received enthusiastic applause. Thus encouraged, Stevenson's professionally intellectual, politically amateurish advisers pushed their advantage, urging him to make the H-bomb his top campaign issue. Arguing against them in a top-level Chicago conference was Campaign Manager Jim Finnegan, a tough-minded political pro. Finnegan finally gave in on the ground that the H-bomb was "a way of talking about peace"-and peace was an issue that Finnegan was distressed to see the Republicans monopolizing. The strategy settled, Caltech Geochemist Harrison Brown (who had argued against...
...unabashed liberal. "A liberal," he once wrote, "is one who believes in utilizing the full force of government for the advancement of social, political and economic justice at the municipal, state, national and international levels." With Richardson Dilworth. who succeeded him as mayor, and Jim Finnegan. now Adlai Stevenson's campaign manager. Clark led the revolt that turned Philadelphia from a Republican stronghold into a Democratic bastion...
...this failure has been placed on Clayton Fritchey, Stevenson's press secretary. Fritchey, accordingly, would soon be fired for his own "failure to Jim Hagertize his way through this campaign" with sufficient effectiveness. These rumors, however, were vigorously denied the next day in Springfield by campaign manager Jim Finnegan...