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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harvard students prefer Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller of New York for Republican Presidential nominee in 1960 and Adlai E. Stevenson, former Governor of Illinois, as the Democratic candidate, according to an undergraduate poll conducted Tuesday and Wednesday by Students for Rockefeller and Students for Humphrey...

Author: By Mary ELLEN Gale, | Title: Polls Reveal Presidential Preferences | 5/15/1959 | See Source »

Feiffer's childhood, which he describes as "monotonous," was colored by cocktail parties when he was twelve ("We were a sophisticated group of kids") and fantasies of becoming Jimmy Cagney, which he grew out of at fourteen, when he decided to become Humphrey Bogart. "After I got out of Monroe (James Monroe High School). I didn't do anything. I got drafted. I got out. I sat in my room and worried." And now, he admits, "I still don't know where it's going...

Author: By Richard E. Ashcraft, | Title: Confessions of a Cockeyed Artist | 5/12/1959 | See Source »

Students for Rockefeller and Students for Humphrey will combine forces tonight and tomorrow to conduct a poll of presidential favorites among undergraduates. Approximately 3,500 questionnaires will be distributed in the House dining halls and the Union...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRESIDENTIAL POLL | 5/12/1959 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Veto Upheld | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Brown for President? | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

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