Word: hubert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...city council, he set up mayor's commissions on everything from human relations to smoke abatement. He was a great hand at patching labor troubles. After settling one row, Humphrey proudly explained: "What labor and management need is a catalytic agent. And brother, that's little Hubert...
...time he came up for re-election in 1947, Humphrey hardly needed to campaign. He won by an even greater plurality than before, carried every ward in the city. Hubert Horatio Humphrey got to thinking about Washington again...
Power-Seeking. In the old days at the University of Minnesota, his favorite instructor, Ervon M. Kirkpatrick, once quoted to him a useful maxim: "Power goes to those who seek it." Power-seeking Hubert Humphrey first had to force a showdown within his own sprawling party. For months, Humphrey lieutenants stumped the state, lining up delegates to fight the Wallaceites and Communists in the Democratic-Farmer-Labor ranks (Humphrey broke with Wallace after Wallace's pro-Soviet speech at Madison...
Five-Star Treatment. Whatever Hubert Humphrey still had to learn about becoming a Senator, there was not much for him still to learn about politicking. He briefed his new eight-man staff: every letter was to be answered, every request followed up, a card-index system established to show what action was taken. Minnesota correspondence was to get priority (in one week he got 2,000 letters, tops for any freshman). He had a list prepared of big Minnesota names, who were to get the five-star treatment...
...once started, the question now was: "Where did Hubert Humphrey go from here? He had made a smashing success in the minor leagues. How would he do in the majors? He well knew that freshmen Senators are to be seen and not heard, and for the present at least, he was going to play that...