Word: freeman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After Estes evaluated and entered, the cards indeed seemed to be stacked against him. While Adlai Stevenson whisked across Minnesota on the wings of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor organization headed by U.S. Senator Hubert Humphrey and Governor Orville Freeman, Kefauver slogged through the state with a collection of political paupers. Adlai made elegant speeches at elaborately arranged meetings; Estes went about shaking hands and chucking chins. Stevenson's supporters began to believe the slaughter would be even greater than their wildest dreams...
...Absolutely No Alibi." Not until a few days before the primary did either side sense that Kefauver was gaining. Only two days before the primary, Governor Freeman predicted that Stevenson would win by "somewhere between a two-to-one and a three-to-one majority." A day before the vote, Stevenson-lining Columnist Doris Fleeson wrote: "If Stevenson loses or is badly damaged, he has absolutely no alibi...
...primary in a revolt against the Eisenhower Administration's farm program. But then the Stevenson partisans tripped over their own arguments by contending that the Stevenson defeat was the work of conspiring Republicans who crossed over and voted for Kefauver in an effort to destroy Stevenson, Humphrey and Freeman. If the Republicans who voted Democratic were angry enough to bolt their party on the farm issue, the same Republicans were not so loyal that they conspired to destroy the Democratic leadership...
...Minnesota miracle was indeed a devastating blow to the Democratic-Farmer-Labor leadership. Before the primary, the Minnesota organization was considered the brightest jewel in the new Democratic crown. But Humphrey and Freeman had committed themselves fully to Stevenson, and the defeat left their machine in the ditch...
...wangle their way onto the floor by some political maneuvers, but they might have to pledge their votes to Kefauver to do it. Pausing to notice the plight of his erstwhile foes, Kefauver last week was big about it all. Said he: "I still would like to have Mr. Freeman and Senator Humphrey on my convention delegation...