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...Stevenson-for-Governor Committee's 1948 campaign fund. Stevenson was not on hand; there was no press conference at which the reporters could question the candidate. The prepared statement closed with an announcement obviously calculated to take Stevenson off the defensive: both he and Vice-Presidential Nominee John Sparkman were going to make public their income-tax returns for the past ten years. The unspoken implications: Eisenhower and Nixon should be expected to do the same thing...
Last weeK Democratic Vice Presidential candidate John Sparkman campaigned through Iowa, talking mostly about prosperity. While Iowa's prosperity will help the Democratic cause with the purse-minded farmers, its effect is at least partially offset by some blunt economic facts: the farmers' taxes and living costs have been going up, while the trend of prices for their farm products has been down. Farm policy -Republican v. Democrat promises to farmers-has not developed as a burning 1952 issue in Iowa. Other issues, e.g., Government corruption and the Korean war, are hotter...
...pamphlet urges: "Don't let them lynch our citizens; Don't let them rock the ark of prosperity." It calls Stevenson and Sparkman "friends of Negroes, Jews, Catholics, and Protestants...
...group voiced unanimous support of the Democratic national ticket of Adlai E. Stevenson and John Sparkman, but backers of Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. succeeded in blocking endorsement of Congressman John F. Kennedy in the Massachusetts Senate contest...
...Stevenson-Sparkman ticket drew praise as "a great liberal team" which would "protect the great social gains of recent years and insure new progress...