Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ohio. Senator George Bender has chucked his noisy, boisterous ways, is campaigning hard against the great popularity of five-term Governor Frank Lausche. Bender's campaign chairman is Treasury Secretary George Humphrey. Bender aides say that the candidate may get personal help from Dwight D. Eisenhower himself. But all three of them will have trouble beating Frank Lausche...
Those in the dominant group in the party today have very little in common with the caricature of the past. Secretary of the Treasury George Humphrey, Attorney General Brownell, Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams, Postmaster General Summerfield. Thomas E. Dewey-these men have about as much resemblance to the Old Guard as an old-time minstrel show has to a slick Rodgers and Hammerstein musical...
...Switch. The second ballot started, and Kennedy surged handily ahead of Kefauver. The Missouri delegation rushed away to caucus. Connecticut's Bailey grabbed Missouri's Senator Tom Hennings by the lapels and shouted a plea that he turn his Humphrey votes to Kennedy. But Hennings, aware that Kennedy had voted against rigid, 90%-of-parity farm supports, barked right back: "What about the farm vote?" There were angry stirrings in the Tennessee delegation, and Albert Gore grabbed a microphone to withdraw in favor of Kefauver...
...began dressing to make his triumphal convention appearance. But before he could get there, the Tennessee switch had changed the chemistry of the balloting. Kennedy's vote hung. Kefauver's began to surge. Oklahoma switched from Gore to Kefauver; Minnesota, which had been split between Kefauver and Humphrey, swung solidly behind Estes. Kennedy and Kefauver strained to go over the top, as, in a situation of total confusion, half a dozen standards waved high...
...soon spun and came rushing through the crowd toward the chairman's platform. Yelled McCormack: "Sam! Sam! Missouri!" Sam Rayburn, who had been calmly watching the waving standards before deciding which state to recognize, called on Missouri. Tom Hennings announced a switch of 31½ votes from Humphrey to Kefauver−Estes was so close that it was all over but the shouting. By directing Rayburn's attention to Missouri, John McCormack had settled a score with Jack Kennedy, the rising young politician who last spring took control of the Massachusetts state organization away from McCormack...