Word: hubert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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MINNESOTA'S Senator Hubert Humphrey is anathema to the conservative South, has been unable to create an image of himself as a real presidential possibility, is probably just in the race for the ebullient hell...
...total vote, compiled from 1456 ballots, Stevenson defeated Rockefeller 62 per cent to 38 per cent. Sen. John F. Kennedy, however, lost to Rockefeller by two votes in the closest contest of the poll. Other Democratic candidates suggested by the poll--Senate Majority Leader Lydon B. Johnson, Sen. Hubert H. Humphery of Minnesota, and Sen. Stuart Symington of Missouri--were defeated by Rockefeller with majorities from 60 to 71 per cent, thus giving Rockefeller an average of 57 per cent of the total vote against the five Democrats...
...Illinois' Minority Leader Everett Dirksen provided some unintentional comic relief. Arguing that it was unsporting to hold Mrs. Luce's old political speeches against her, Orator Dirksen cried: "Why thrash old hay or beat an old bag of bones?" As the galleries guffawed, Minnesota's Democrat Hubert Humphrey played for laughs. "I must rise to the defense of the lady," he said...
...from Agriculture Secretary Ezra Benson to power-hungry Clyde Ellis, director of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association. To farm-state representatives of both parties the bill was alluring; Ellis for weeks had been bringing his regional managers into Washington to buttonhole Congressmen. As drafted by Benson-hating Senator Hubert Humphrey, moreover, S. 144 was a direct slap at the bedeviled Agriculture Secretary and, indirectly, at the President himself...
Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey, who checked into the Brown hotel fortnight ago. Humphrey visited long enough to portray himself as the only Fair-Dealing, New-Dealing Democrat available. He left with good wishes and the suspicion that he could get California support when and if Pat Brown steps aside...