Word: kennon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...advisory committee, former National Chairman Stephen Mitchell. His committee's proposal, Mitchell pointed out, left plenty of muscle to throw out of the 1956 national convention any Democrat who bolted and supported Dwight Eisenhower in 1952. If former Governor James F. Byrnes of South Carolina. Governor Robert F. Kennon of Louisiana, Governor Allan Shivers and former National Committeeman Wright Morrow of Texas seek seats as delegates, warned Mitchell, "they will be rejected...
...restraining efforts of priests and organizers, the threat of violence hung like Spanish moss over the bayous. In Terrebonne Parish, swamp-fire violence flared briefly when four men ambushed and shot three Negro sugar-mill workers, wounding them slightly. The four were promptly arrested. Said Governor Robert F. Kennon: "I feel it is my duty to publicly state that such acts will not be tolerated." Said Jesuit Father L. J. Twomey of New Orleans' Loyola University: "The workers are apparently willing to take whatever risks are involved to free, if not themselves, at least their children, from this environment...
...would be the logical man for the job in either a Republican or Democratic administration. A career diplomat, with years of training in Soviet affairs and the Russian language, he surpasses in qualifications for the post every other man in the State Department, with the possible exception of George Kennon. For this reason, it is unusual that his choice has any opposition...
Louisiana. The Longs are out for Stevenson; their enemy, Governor Robert Kennon, is for Ike although he is not yet actively campaigning. Unless New Orleans unexpectedly swings Republican after Ike and Stevenson speak there this month, the state will probably stay Democratic...
...convention, Shivers has been suspended in a strange political vacuum. He is against Stevenson and Sparkman, yet he hasn't said he will vote for the Republican nominees. But he is expected to follow the pattern set by Jimmy Byrnes and Louisiana's Governor Robert F. Kennon, and announce that he will vote for Eisenhower...