Word: harrimans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harry Truman, who greeted him, he said, with a snapper: "You're backing a loser." When Matthews disagreed, Truman said flatly: "Well, he is gonna get beat!" "By whom?" asked Matthews. Replied Truman: "Me!" Truman denied that he had ever said any such thing. ¶ In Milwaukee, Averell Harriman, New York's ex-governor and onetime (1956) presidential hopeful, startled a group of local Democratic politicos with an announcement: "If I could appoint the next President, I would pick Humphrey." The partisans of Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey were delighted (although Harriman can sway...
Gazing into his crystal ball in Raleigh, N.C., New York's ex-Democratic Governor W. Averell Harriman, 67, no longer a presidential candidate, predicted with no ifs or buts that Vice President Richard Nixon will be next year's Republican nominee: "He's going to get nominated, because he expresses the Republican philosophy." In definition of that philosophy, Multimillionaire Harriman cordially damned the G.O.P. Administration's "ruling class of big businessmen," added that its political ascendancy has hurt the U.S. at home and abroad, because "you've got to be a good neighbor at home...
...Averell Harriman, former Governor of New York, will open the 52nd season of the Ford Hall Forum tomorrow with a lecture entitled "Peace With Russia?" All lectures at the Forum begin at 8 p.m. and are open to the public. Other scheduled speakers...
Even the solo performances took on the glamour of major production. New York's ex-Governor Averell Harriman and Eleanor Roosevelt, both Khrushchev's guests in Russia who doubtless had said politely, "Come and see me if you're ever in America," found themselves with protocol-sized problems-Harriman with a reception in his Manhattan apartment, Mrs. R. with a tour of the F.D.R. home at Hyde Park. Khrush's favorite U.S. farmer, Roswell Garst of Coon Rapids, Iowa, placated photographers by trying on a coat given him by Khrushchev in Moscow last March, finally decided...
...Pundit Joseph Alsop wrote last week that between the time Rockefeller began thinking about running against Democrat Averell Harriman for Governor of New York and Election Day last year, he paid for no less than 134 polls of various sorts. At the time he actually made the decision to run, Alsop said, the polls were running 60-40 against...