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Word: nelsons (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strategy of the Humphrey team was to persuade Wisconsin's Governor Gaylord Nelson to run in the primary as a favorite son. Thus, come convention time, he would be in a position to deliver the Wisconsin delegation to his favorite, Adlai Stevenson, or-if Stevenson means what he says about not running-Hubert Humphrey. Key Humphrey players, who worked out smoothly at the Midwest Democratic rally in Milwaukee last fortnight: Minnesota's Governor Orville Freeman, United Auto Workers' Political Operative Harvey Kitzman ("The union's support is going to Humphrey"), and Washington Lawyer James Rowe, great...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WISCONSIN: Primary Scrimmage | 3/23/1959 | See Source »

Jauntily turned out in glen plaid suit and lemon shirt, New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller went through one buoyant morning's routine in the State Capitol at Albany. He presided over a swearing-in, sat on the carpeted floor with delighted schoolchildren visitors, charmed a delegation of Methodist churchwomen. Cracked he, as a photographer posed a group portrait: "I have to be careful who I stand behind. My wife sees these pictures, you know." Amid the badinage, Nelson Rockefeller did not betray by so much as a flicker of an eye the fact that his reputation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Politician's Spurs | 3/16/1959 | See Source »

...Affirm that a state can use its police powers to prevent "sedition" against the Federal Government, thus erasing the 1956 opinion (TIME, April 16. 1956). written by Chief Justice Earl Warren. that freed Pennsylvania's top Communist Steve Nelson from prosecution under a state antisedition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LAW: Plugs for the Loopholes | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

...stage, the boys' styles are so derivative that more appropriate names might have been Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis or Ricky Nelson. But British teenagers are rapidly turning the muscle-named singers into national heroes. And the boys themselves, in wry comment on how well Parnes is doing on the deal, have given him a new name too: "Parnes, Shillings and Pence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ROCK 'N1 ROLL: Eager, Gentle, Fury | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

Marriage Revealed. Donald Marr Nelson, 70, World War II boss of the War Production Board; and Lena Peters Schunzel. fortyish, widow of Actor-Director Reinhold Schunzel; he for the fifth time, she for the third; in Durham...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 2, 1959 | 3/2/1959 | See Source »

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