Word: harrimans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Building further their brothers-under-the-greenbacks camaraderie, ardent Art Fancier Averell Harriman, Democratic Governor of New York, offered to Republican Governor-elect Nelson Rockefeller, an art lover even more ardent, a token of no hard feelings: the loan of eight etchings and two oils by James Abbott McNeill Whistler and one oil by John Singer Sargent for Rockefeller's use in the executive mansion...
Under examination was a manifesto issued by the liberal-dominated Democratic National Advisory Council (among the members: Adlai Stevenson, Harry Truman, New York's Governor Averell Harriman and ex-Senator Herbert Lehman). The council urged greatly expanded federal programs in social security, health, education, agriculture, public works and welfare, area redevelopment and urban renewal, did not attempt to put a price tag on the proposals. Virginia's economy-minded Senator Harry Flood Byrd-no member of the council-did. His estimate: $5 billion or $6 billion a year...
...Ranch in Texas answering telephone calls from newly elected Democrats, greeting visitors, wheeling and dealing as the Democratic Party's leader-in-action. Pat Brown, who needs to get himself known outside California, was off on a get-acquainted tour, visiting such elder Democrats as Adlai Stevenson, Averell Harriman and Harry Truman. Stu Symington was vacationing in Puerto Rico; his strategy has been to keep quiet and let his competitors knock one another off. And Jack Kennedy was campaigning in Alaska-just as he has been campaigning ever since 1956 in a marathon effort to make friends and influence...
...Minnesota's Humphrey appeared to have gained the most from the 1958 elections-but he had a lot of ground to make up. Before the elections, Humphrey probably stood behind both Michigan's Governor G. Mennen Williams and New York's Governor Averell Harriman as the strongest entry from the Democratic Fair Dealing wing. But Harriman was torpedoed in the elections, "Soapy" Williams ran fifth on his state ticket-and Humphrey moved past them both...
...days later Brown was off on his cross-country get-acquainted tour, seeing top Democratic leaders, paying his respects to Stevenson, Harriman, Meyner and Truman. An omission that may prove to be unfortunate: the Texas ranch of Lyndon Baines Johnson, Democratic leader of the U.S. Senate, a man who knows most of the party answers and a presidential possibility in his own right...