Word: meekness
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After Lincoln, Meek headed at 75 m.p.h. to Paxton, thence to Bloomington and finally to Pontiac, where he spoke that night in a grade-school gymnasium. When his speech was over, he hustled outside. There, with the moonbeams filtering down through the elms, he stood for nearly an hour; in that time he shook some 470 hands. To one man he commented: "What a nice sweater." Spotting a G.O.P. precinct worker, he said: "You're doing a grand job." A middle-aged woman got a "You sure look good tonight, ma'am," and a toothless oldster...
Douglas continued his practice of not referring to Joe Meek by name; instead, he calls his opponent "the Republican Rip van Winkle who has slept 20 years in Lobbyland," and "a man who was dragged screaming into the 20th century...
Nothing Personal. Ike flew to Springfield to help the G.O.P. ticket and. especially, Senatorial Candidate Joseph T. Meek, former lobbyist for the Illinois Federation of Retail Associations, disciple of the Chicago Tribune. There was nothing personal in Ike's help for Meek. The senatorial candidate was not at the airport to meet the President. At lunch in the governor's mansion, Meek was not seated at Ike's table. When the presidential motorcade left for the fairgrounds, Illinois' Governor William G. Stratton and Indiana's Governor George Craig rode with Ike. Meek rode with...
...they built them so crookedly that every time they bored through them, .they came out on the side of pessimism and depression ... I think all of us are getting rather tired of crooked-fence economic policies." Not until the end of the speech did the President get around to Meek. Ike said he hoped it would not sound like a political speech "if I should suggest to you the possiblity that it might be a good thing to increase the size of the delegation that you send from Lincoln's party to Washington...
...Meek was satisfied. Ike had not used his name, but the President seldom does use a candidate's name. And if the President's endorsement had been less than warmhearted, the President's attack was aimed directly at a target Illinois voters could identify. Meek's opponent is Senator Paul Douglas, who last spring bet his political shirt on a depression. Economist Douglas had gone up and down Illinois, asserting that hard times had arrived and were about to get much worse. Said an Eisenhower aide: "Douglas got himself out on a limb...