Word: gorings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chicago street without help from an eager vice-presidential candidate. The once-foot-dragging Jack Kennedy suddenly became a bounding ball of energy, stayed up most of the night looking for votes. Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey (the only avowed candidate when the convention opened), Tennessee's Albert Gore and New York's Bob Wagner all hurled themselves bodily into the struggle, but, predictably, it was Estes Kefauver who covered the most ground, shook the most hands and drawled "bless you" to the most speakers proclaiming him "the greatest man America has ever produced...
...committee investigations for the disastrous defeat of some machine candidates in 1950−went mostly to Kennedy. Missouri cast its lot with Hubert Humphrey. New York went to Mayor Wagner. Tennessee, where Estes is involved in a furious factional fight with Governor Frank Clement, voted for its other SenatorAlbert Gore.* But the first-ballot count stood: Kefauver 483½, Kennedy 304, Gore 178, Wagner 162½, Humphrey...
...this with something. He can make this one−if he'll go now." Carmine agreed (he has never forgotten that Estes and the Kefauver committee in 1950 made him out an old pal of Racketeer Frank Costello). The Texas delegation caucused. Albert Gore's Texas backers fought wildly, but the delegation was faced down by grim old Sam Rayburn. "Gentlemen," said Rayburn, "you can vote as you please-but Sam Rayburn is voting for Kennedy." Under the unit rule, Texas stood 56 for Kennedy...
...made up his mind? "Yes," laughed Truman, "I've made up my mind-but I might want to change it." Almost as soon as he returned to the hotel, his visitors began pouring in again. Promised Truman to one of them, Tennessee's Senator Albert Gore: "I'm going to stir up a little trouble this afternoon...
Tennessee's Senator Albert Arnold Gore. Looking ten years younger than his age (48), Gore is personable, an aggressive speaker, and owns a consistent liberal voting record in both House (1938-52) and Senate. A strong advocate of expanded foreign trade, he helped write this year's highway-construction bill, was a leading Democratic critic of the ill-fated Dixon-Yates contract, called vigorously for a real investigation of the lobbying scandal on the natural-gas bill (but accepted party discipline without public complaint when he was shunted aside as chairman of the committee investigating lobbying activities...