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There were weightier considerations, however, and eventually they won out. Wagner, immensely gregarious, has wide appeal in polyglot New York (a Catholic of German-Irish extraction, he married a Quaker girl, Susan Edwards, in 1942). If, as the Democrats' only proved vote-getter, he turned down the party now-when its need is so great-he would run the risk that its affronted leaders would deny him the nomination in 1958. On the other hand, if he lost this year, he could return to his mayor's job and still be assured another try at the Senate. With...
Ingram's salesmen sold caps with more than 25,000 different inscriptions; production rose from 240,000 caps in 1932 to more than 42 million in 1955. Caps with Arabic lettering went to a milk company in Beirut, Lebanon. Caps with "Pida Pepsi'' and "Quaker Oats, Mucha Nutricion a Poco Costo" went to Mexico. Caps went to fruit peddlers in Vicenza, Italy, to soft-drink vendors in Caracas, Venezuela, to pickle packers in Pittsburgh...
...Observe, Persist, Learn." The personality was nourished by a quiet, perceptive, Quaker-bred mother, an outgiving father, Lewis Green Stevenson (business manager for 45 Midwestern farms, Illinois Secretary of State, 1914-1916), and a wealth of family pride. Great-grandfather Jesse Fell was a close friend of Lincoln's, suggested the Lincoln- Douglas debates, worked for Lincoln's presidential campaign. Adlai's Democratic paternal grandfather and namesake was Vice President in Grover Cleveland's second Administration, and the old campaign posters still decorate Adlai's den in Libertyville. Adlai's birth naturally prompted...
...Ferdinand Wagner. Excluded from serving in Washington with New York State's Harriman, Wagner has cast his lot with Stevenson. The son of the Senate author of the Wagner Labor Relations Act, Bob Wagner, 46, bears a name enshrined by organized labor. A Catholic (his wife is a Quaker), Wagner is an adequate administrator and a lackluster campaigner who would have little appeal in the South or the farm states...
Died. Levi Hollingsworth Wood, 82, slim, bushy-browed Manhattan lawyer and Quaker humanitarian, a founder (1910) and president (1915-41) of the National Urban League (membership: 50,000), which supports Negro rights in housing and employment, a founder of the American Civil Liberties Union and the American Friends Service Committee; in Mount Kisco...