Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...accepted thesis that the United States was bound to enter a period of conservatism. This was shown as much by the scores of Congressional turnovers as by the victory of President Truman. Where the Senate had Curley Brooks, Joe Ball, and Tom Stewart, it now has Paul Douglas, Hubert Humphrey, and Estes Kefauver. The House has similarly changed...
...Largo. A veteran recovers his self-respect fighting gangsters. Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lionel Barrymore, Claire Trevor et al. do fine work in John Huston's adaptation of a Maxwell Anderson play (TIME...
...Albert Lea, Minn., he put in a word for Senator Joe Ball, who deserted him in 1944 to support Roosevelt and who is now fighting for his political life against Minneapolis' bouncing Mayor Hubert Humphrey. Ball, smiling bleakly, was allowed to stand on the rear platform with the candidate. A tomato hurled by another hoodlum grazed Ball's shoulder...
...Largo. A veteran recovers his self-respect fighting gangsters. Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lionel Barrymore, Claire Trevor et al. do fine work in John Huston's adaptation of a Maxwell Anderson play (TIME...
...race in Minnesota also looks like a Democratic victory. In spite of Dewey's chummy endorsement, Senator Joseph Ball's prospects against Hubert Humphrey are decidedly gloomy. Ever since former Governor Benson chose not to run on the Progressive ticket, Humphrey has been romping through Stassen territory well in advance of Ball, who has been observed settling slowly to the right during the past few years...