Word: hubert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...selecting their favorite Democratic candidate, 62 per cent of those answering voted for Stevenson, while 16 per cent picked Kennedy and 10 per cent went for Hubert Humphrey...
...Louisiana, went north to work his way through Wisconsin and Illinois, and headed toward heavy speaking dates in California two weeks hence. Missouri's Stuart Symington was marching through Georgia, booked solidly ahead for shooting matches from Massachusetts to Florida over the next weeks. Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey scored an unexpected bull's-eye with the United Auto Workers in Atlantic City, pushed on to Denver. In Dallas, House Speaker Sam Rayburn, who customarily presides over the Democratic Convention, nominated fellow Texan Lyndon Johnson for his presidential candidate. Illinois' Adlai Stevenson held court with visiting politicos...
Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey came onstage last to charm the delegates out of their chairs with a whiplash, give-'em-hell attack on the Eisenhower Administration's "inertia and catering to specially privileged Republicans." His speech drew 40 rounds of applause, and as it ended, 3,000 delegates roared and stomped their approval for twelve minutes. Clearly, Humphrey, the candidate who had been all but counted out by some of his fellow hopefuls, was way ahead with the U.A.W...
...Major Hubert Matos, a leader of the Castro Revolution, was imprisoned shortly after submitting a letter of resignation to Premier Fidel Castro. Matos charged that the revolution had not fulfilled its program, and further complained that the Communists had infiltrated the government...
DeGuglielmo is a backer of Senator John F. Kennedy '40, while Beer, National Chairman of A.D.A. is inclined to support Senator Hubert Humphrey or Governor G. Mennen Williams. An executive of the H.Y.D.C. suggested that Senator Williams will seek to gain support for Meyner tomorrow and will not hesitate to "plug" him tonight...