Word: mckinney
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...down himself (TIME, Feb. 18, 1952). Said Baker: "I just lucked out on him." The Air Force, just to make sure that luck doesn't finally run out on its new ace of aces, ordered Baker to stay on the ground until it can send him home to McKinney, Tex. to his wife & four kids...
...former purchasing agents, William J. McKinney and David H. Cummings, recalled something, too: Stevenson had arranged for a special political fund after he was elected. They thought it was used to support Stevenson's candidates for the legislature and to pay some of his own political expenses. The man in charge of this fund, said McKinney, was the late James Mulroy, former managing editor of the Chicago Sun, who was Stevenson's executive secretary.* Each month Mulroy got a list of firms doing business with the state. Said McKinney: "Mulroy was under orders not to pressure these people...
...weeks, Adlai Stevenson kept the Democratic Party guessing about his choice of a national chairman. The pols, including Cook County's Jack Arvey, urged Stevenson to keep Frank McKinney on in the job, or pick some other pro. But Stevenson, acting entirely on his own, chose a new face: Stephen A. Mitchell, Chicago lawyer. Like the choice of Wilson Wyatt as campaign manager (TIME, Aug. 11), the move was designed to reinforce the impression that Candidate Stevenson is independent of the regular Democratic organization...
...raise campaign funds for Chicago's Mayor Kennelly and for Stevenson, he is certainly not a professional politician in the old sense. The line of the old pros is running thin as the power of city and state machines declines. Present-day pros of the Bill Boyle-Frank McKinney type tend to have the look of the breed without the depth of experience or the skill of their forerunners; they have, so to speak, the ears and the appetite of the bloodhound, without the nose. Meanwhile, a new kind of pro has been growing in the shadow...
...speech, he withdrew for a little serious politicking. In a low-ceilinged room behind the rostrum, the candidate and the President gathered with Democratic leaders to pick a Veep. The others present: Illinois' ex-Senator Scott Lucas, House Majority Leader John McCormack, Sam Rayburn, National Committee Chairman Frank McKinney, Jack Arvey...