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...Raskin, 50, a shrewd Midwestern political strategist who was a prime mover in Adlai Stevenson's unsuccessful campaigns. From time to time old Joe Kennedy looked in to watch his son with unmitigated pride...
...first birthday of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. merger, one of the U.S.'s top labor reporters, New York Timesman A. H. Raskin, gave the "brawling infant" one to grow on in the Times's Sunday Magazine. Excerpts...
...light eater, disdains cigars, watches his blood pressure like a campaign manager watching a wavering delegate. No jolly backslapper or joke-smith, he has only an ordinary memory for names and faces, seldom relaxes ("The only time I ever knew him to relax," says Campaign Executive Director Hy Raskin, "was when he took off a weekend in Atlantic City. And then all he did was to sit on someone's front porch and talk politics"). He has never married. He blends a good sense of practical politics with a fairly idealistic view of "good government." Typical Finneganisms: "Good government...
...same setting, next day, Stevenson met reporters to answer questions. First, Stevenson announced that he had appointed Pennsylvania's Secretary of the Commonwealth James Finnegan, a seasoned Philadelphia political veteran, as his pre-convention campaign manager. Finnegan's chief assistant would be Chicago Attorney Hyman B. Raskin, a former deputy chairman of the Democratic National Committee. Acting as advisers would be former Democratic National Chairman Stephen Mitchell and onetime (1946) National Housing Administrator Wilson W. Wyatt, who were the key managers in Stevenson's 1952 campaign. When a reporter commented that this chain of command showed that...
...vacationing in Jamaica recently, his followers were in full swing. Chicago Attorney Stephen Mitchell, former Democratic National Chairman, was spending a third of his time politicking for Stevenson -and giving free rein to his own ambition to be governor of Illinois. One of Mitchell's law partners, Hy Raskin, was working full-time on behalf of Stevenson...