Word: kefauveritis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jack Kennedy is the early-season Demo cratic favorite by general agreement. Says an aide to Michigan's hopeful "Soapy" Williams: "If the convention were held today. Kennedy would win on the first ballot, period." Kennedy has New Eng land's loo-plus delegate votes virtually sewed up...
Kennedy's strategy: to spend the next year paying the strictest attention to his Senate business. He expects to be in the presidential primaries up to his tousled hair; he would like nothing better than to entice that great primary campaigner, Estes Kefauver, into the early-bird New Hampshire...
Thus, just after the elections of 1958, the Democratic Party finds itself in the pleasant position of having at least half a dozen good Men Who. But The Man Who might also be Two-Time Loser Adlai Stevenson, with ardent disciples spotted across the U.S. and feared by more active...
Somehow the incantation began to work. "Hi, Pat," came a workman's voice. Hands reached out to grasp Pat's. "Morning, Patrick," came a greeting. Then another and another: "Good luck, Pat" and "Give 'em hell, Pat." Pat Brown grinned happily, pumped hands with a proficiency that...
Taking up the threat of oncoming inflation, the Federal Reserve review speculated that further price rises might be held down by the large inventories still on hand. Recent price rises in steel and other raw materials, said the report, were encouraged by the Mideast crisis, and might prove to be...