Word: kefauveritis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The long face of Estes Kefauver seemed as long as a Tennessee walker's on election night when he talked about what happened in his own state. "It was decided," he explained, "that it would be better for me to campaign where our chances looked less bright."
Trail's End. But now it was over. Now the long years since the first defeat, the raucous primary fight with Estes Kefauver. the glittering first-ballot victory which brought him his party's nomination at Chicago (and marked, perhaps, the pinnacle of his political career), the frustrating...
There, while aides watched the early returns, Kefauver napped. Finally, in the smoke-filled Statler Hotel Presidential Room, in a maze of glowing lights, foot-tripping cord and people jostling each others' highball glasses, he made the loser's traditional speech. J. Howard McGrath, Kefauver adviser and onetime...
At the other pole are the young writers and thinkers who have made up the Stevenson entourage during this campaign. Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., professor of History and Pulitzer Prize winner, would probably serve in the organizing months, at least, of a Democratic Administration. Stevenson's law partners William McCormick Blair...
¶ A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany, who first opposed the federation's taking an election stand, then supported an executive council decision to endorse the Democrats, backed away again in a message to 15 million union members: "Naturally, I ... hope you will vote for Stevenson and Kefauver, but the...