Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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FINNEGAN: Well, suppose he doesn't pick Kennedy. Then the Catholics are against him. If he doesn't pick Kefauver, then he loses all of his people. If he doesn't pick Humphrey, it doesn't make too much difference...
...delegate could buy his own drink and no elderly lady could cross a Chicago street without help from an eager vice-presidential candidate. The once-foot-dragging Jack Kennedy suddenly became a bounding ball of energy, stayed up most of the night looking for votes. Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey (the only avowed candidate when the convention opened), Tennessee's Albert Gore and New York's Bob Wagner all hurled themselves bodily into the struggle, but, predictably, it was Estes Kefauver who covered the most ground, shook the most hands and drawled "bless you" to the most speakers...
...voting began. Illinois−whose Democratic leaders still blame the Kefauver committee investigations for the disastrous defeat of some machine candidates in 1950−went mostly to Kennedy. Missouri cast its lot with Hubert Humphrey. New York went to Mayor Wagner. Tennessee, where Estes is involved in a furious factional fight with Governor Frank Clement, voted for its other SenatorAlbert Gore.* But the first-ballot count stood: Kefauver 483½, Kennedy 304, Gore 178, Wagner 162½, Humphrey...
South Dakota (8): Kefauver won the primary; the delegation is looking for a new man, with a majority seeming to favor Harriman, despite the pro-Stevenson influence of Native Son Hubert Humphrey, presently of Minnesota...
Minnesota's Hubert Horatio Humphrey. He has patched together his state's Democratic-Farmer-Labor organization after its stunning primary defeat by Estes Kefauver, is now edging back toward the center of the national stage. St. Paul's Representative Eugene McCarthy (no kin to Joe) has begun organizing a Humphrey-for-Vice-President movement. Humphrey, an effective orator, is the champion of high, rigid farm supports. Although he has risen in the estimate of his Southern Senate colleagues (Georgia's Walter George offered to campaign for him in 1954), other Southerners recall vividly-and bitterly...