Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first real campaign speech for the 1956 elections, Adlai Stevenson last week was crisp, caustic and effective. He had an ideal backdrop for his speech: Duluth, where Senator Hubert Humphrey's strongly pro-Stevenson Minnesotans cheered him to the echo. Some 900 Democrats slushed through the season's first snow to the National Guard Armory and cheerfully paid $10 a plate for roast beef and 50? for badges saying, "I'm still madly for Adlai." A jazz band played It's a Sin to Tell a Lie (also known as Be Sure It's True...
Since his Green Bay flop, Stevenson has wrestled with his scruples about 90% of parity, and won. In New York last week, he conferred with Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey, a leader of the farm-state Democrats, who hope to organize a "green uprising" against the G.O.P. at the polls next November. The Midwesterners made it plain that their support depended on Stevenson's acceptance of 90% of parity, and he came through...
...message to the Des Moines conference, read by Humphrey's administrative assistant, Herb Waters, Stevenson came out 100% for 90% of parity, plus subsidy payments for some perishables, plus programs to stimulate consumption. He noted that price supports "by themselves do not constitute a complete farm program. We must face the realities of surpluses and unbalanced production." But cheers drowned out the qualifications...
...Desperate Hours. A man's home is his prison in the thriller-diller of the season; with Fredric March, Humphrey Bogart (TIME...
...Desperate Hours. A man's home is his prison in the thriller-diller of the season; with Fredric March, Humphrey Bogart (TIME...