Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Democratic presidential nomination may well be won in the playing fields of the state primaries-or in the scrimmages beforehand. Last week the battle for the primaries was on between the front-running candidates, Massachusetts' Jack Kennedy and the liveliest of the challengers, Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey...
Fortnight ago, Minnesota's Humphrey-allied Democrat-Farmer-Labor Party gave a big push to a bill abolishing Minnesota's "costly" ten-year-old primary. Fear of the Humphreyites: G.O.P. voters might cross over in the primary to vote for Kennedy and embarrass Humphrey in his home state. Last week the Kennedy-ites scored in Wisconsin with a surprise play that broke up the attempt of Humphrey's teammates to block Kennedy from next April's Wisconsin primary...
...strategy of the Humphrey team was to persuade Wisconsin's Governor Gaylord Nelson to run in the primary as a favorite son. Thus, come convention time, he would be in a position to deliver the Wisconsin delegation to his favorite, Adlai Stevenson, or-if Stevenson means what he says about not running-Hubert Humphrey. Key Humphrey players, who worked out smoothly at the Midwest Democratic rally in Milwaukee last fortnight: Minnesota's Governor Orville Freeman, United Auto Workers' Political Operative Harvey Kitzman ("The union's support is going to Humphrey"), and Washington Lawyer James Rowe, great...
...ideal is the casual man who pursues a line of conduct corresponding to a preconceived code, directed by an unalterable mental outlook in which spontaneous emotions play a miniscule role. If enthusiasm is allowed to creep in, it is carefully controlled and channelled toward "safe" objects such as Humphrey Bogart or the Kingston Trio; it is never casual to display enthusiasm or emotion toward anything more serious than these...
...Democratic rivals must stop. Last week his lieutenants were only belatedly invited to a conference of Midwest Democratic chieftains in Milwaukee. (Top aide Ted Sorensen and brother Robert Kennedy† showed up.) While the conference accomplished little, it underscored the fact that Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey and Missouri's Stuart Symington are in the favor of Midwest politicians. Both are working hard to expand the Midwest political base and head off the unchallenged vote preference for Kennedy...