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NEW JERSEY. Delegates heard appeals by Candidates Averell Harriman and Estes Kefauver and by Adlai Stevenson's campaign manager, Jim Finnegan, but elected to go to the convention uncommitted. Though the group is heavily pro-Stevenson, leaders will plump for the delegation's chairman, Governor Robert B. Meyner...
ARKANSAS. The State Committee picked a 26-vote delegation, immediately imposed a unit rule. Although there are Symington, Harriman and Kefauver admirers among the delegates, Arkansas should go for Stevenson on the first ballot, will campaign for Arkansas Senator William Fulbright for Vice President.
COLORADO. The state convention met to hear speeches by Stevenson, Kefauver and Harriman, and to pick an uninstructed 20-vote delegation which leans strongly to Adlai. Harry Truman's Agriculture Secretary Charles Brannan and ex-Congressman John Carroll got approval to fight it out for the Democratic senatorial nomination...
"That Smear." If anyone believed (and many had) that softness to Communism would not be an important issue in the 1956 campaign, William Averell Harriman shattered all doubts. And as Harriman outlined the problem, it did not appear to be just a Democrat v. Republican issue. He was, he said...
Eager friends of Border-Stater Clement moved in fast on behalf of their man. Clement, quietly staked out in the Stevenson camp (to the disgust of Fellow Tennessean Estes Kefauver), was generally acceptable to both North and South because of his "local-level" approach to school desegregation. Far more important...