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Though the left side of his face was drawn by an ailment he did not explain, Iowa's Democratic Governor Herschel Cellel Loveless, 48, last week was a man in motion. "You are listening to a politician who is talking out of the side of his mouth," he cracked to a gleeful meeting of the party faithful one night in Des Moines. "I feel better than I look." He felt well enough to go ahead with his long-planned announcement that he will run for the U.S. Senate seat of Republican Thomas Martin, 66, who announced his retirement last...
Roughhewn, farm-bred Herschel Loveless did not go to college, got a job as a railroad worker in Ottumwa, was the city's street superintendent when his handling of a 1947 flood turned him into a local hero and set him up for election ao mayor in 1949. Consistently underestimated by the dominant G.O.P. , even after he beat Incumbent Governor Leo Hoegh in 1956, he exploited his old-shoe manner to win easy re-election in 1958, began to look like a political Music Man to rebrassed Democrats and out-of-tune Republicans...
...special congressional election in Iowa's Fourth District was important enough to bring Governor Herschel Loveless hurrying down from Des Moines. Loveless, the leading Democrat in a state that was once a Republican stronghold, had a big point to prove: the Democrats are in the Farm Belt to stay. To Loveless, the whole election turned on one big question. "Ezra Benson is the only issue in the campaign," he cried. "Benson is Republicanism...
...some original Democratic thinking, and Hubert Humphrey (who has never delivered on the new farm program he promised at the last session of Congress) predicted that the Benson wheat program would bring "lower prices and the largest crop in the history of the world." Iowa's Governor Herschel Loveless, vice-presidential hopeful recently picked to be a farm expert by the Democratic Advisory Council, worked away in Des Moines on a Brannan-style farm plan that will call for direct production payments to farmers and tightened controls...
...Iowa's Democratic Governor Herschel Loveless, who has a vice-presidential gleam in his eye, made an unscheduled sortie across the Mississippi to Moline, Ill., for a testimonial dinner for Massachusetts, hard-running Senator Jack Kennedy. Asked if this meant an endorsement, Loveless smiled and replied: "You can say that rumor has it so." ¶ In Washington later, Senator Kennedy, having acknowledged privately that he might ultimately find himself Adlai Stevenson's vice-presidential candidate, let the word out that he entertains no vice-presidential ambitions for himself. ¶ Oregon's stormy Senator Wayne Morse, violent anti...