Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stuart Symington is the least widely known, the least colorful and the least eloquent. But he has a lot going for him. He has had more high-level administrative experience in the Federal Government than Massachusetts' Jack Kennedy, Illinois' Adlai Stevenson, Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey and Texas' Lyndon Johnson put together. As a Midwesterner of Southern ancestry, who was born in Amherst, Mass, and raised in Baltimore, Md., he has an enviably broad and safe geographical base. And if he is one of the more pedestrian orators in U.S. Senate history, he partly makes...
Those to have accepted "definite committments" are Governors Robert B. Meyner and G. Mennen Williams, and Senators Stuart Symington and Hubert H. Humphrey, according to Forum cochairman David W. Adamany...
...only definite date so far is that of Meyner's appearance, which will be November 18. Brown will probably come during the fall, Williams and Symington prefer to speak in February, and Humphrey will appear in the spring...
...Democratic presidential hopefuls stepped up their courtship of the U.S. voters last week, their most serious rival was the man who wasn't there. Muttered Candidate Hubert Humphrey: "It's frustrating as hell to keep hearing, 'We're with you, Hubert, as long as Adlai isn't in.' Always provisional, always conditional." Said California's Pat Brown to a friend: "It's the most remarkable thing I've ever seen in politics. A man is beaten twice, says repeatedly he doesn't want to run, and he still has enough...
...Socialist representative cast his vote for Senator William O. Douglas in an open fight, for Senator Hubert Humphrey in a closed Democratic contest, and for vice-President Nixon against other Republicans...