Word: hubert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Democrats were delighted at the prospect of beefing up their new political strength in Republican farm strongholds. Presidential Aspirant Stuart Symington proclaimed a program to aid the small farmer, Jack Kennedy called for 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...
...high public office twice and won twice, he does not carry Adlai Stevenson's stigma of past defeats. Though he has voted a straight liberal line in the U.S. Senate-certified and approved by Americans for Democratic Action-he has escaped the 200-proof-liberal label that afflicts Hubert Humphrey. And while Southern ties make him tolerable to many delegates from the South, he is not burdened with Lyndon Johnson's probably fatal handicap of being thought of as a Southerner...
...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 few of New York's 114 convention votes) and flabbergasted: they had assumed that because Harry Truman was backing the candidacy of Fellow-Missourian. Stuart Symington, Harriman would naturally fall in line with his great friend and onetime sponsor Truman. ¶ Minnesota...
...deadline for a workable Russian agreement on test inspection. Said Rockefeller: "I think that we cannot afford to fall behind in the advanced techniques of the use of nuclear material. I think those testings could be carried on, for instance, underground, where there would be no fallout." Minnesota Democrat Hubert Humphrey, chairman of the Senate Disarmament Subcommittee, countered that the U.S. ought to extend the test suspension for one more year...
Castro shouted the name of one candi date for the wall: Major Hubert Matos, the revolutionary hero who quit the army a fortnight ago charging Communist infiltration (TIME, Nov. 2) and for his troubles wound up in prison along with 38 of his officers. "Pilots who crash here," added Castro, referring to the leaflet-dropping runs by U.S.-based Cuban exiles, "will know that the firing squad awaits them inexorably...