Word: hubert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most articulate spokesman of the Fair Deal among the newcomers was Minnesota's brash, bustling young Senator Hubert H. (for Horatio) Humphrey Jr., 37, a hardworking, fast-talking fireball from the Midwest...
...Rough & Tumble. Hustling Hubert Humphrey doesn't fit the usual conception of a U.S. Senator. A glib, jaunty spellbinder with a "listen-you-guys" approach, he talks and looks more like a high-school science teacher who coaches basketball on the side. He has the cyclonic attack of an advertising salesman. A charter member (and this week the new national chairman) of Americans for Democratic Action, a coalition of leftist, non-Communist intellectuals and displaced New Dealers, he has little use for the old party-machine school of politics...
...Orator. His father, a big, kindly, stoop-shouldered man, was a druggist who became a Democrat in Republican South Dakota when he heard William Jennings Bryan speak. By the time young Hubert was seven, his father was already reading Tom Paine and the life of Jefferson to him. Before he was out of grammar school, Hubert Jr. went along to Democratic rallies and conventions, saw his father become first alderman, then mayor of Doland...
...spindly, freckle-faced kid with a wide grin, Hubert Jr. was his high school's prize debater, came out second in the state's regional tournament. That was in 1929 and Hubert...
...depression brought him back from the University of Minnesota at the end of his sophomore year. The family had moved to Huron, where Hubert worked in the drugstore, slept in the basement, and ate at the fountain to save money...