Word: specialinterests
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Dates: during 1952-1952
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...American Legion convention, where he made his first speech of the trip, the Illinois governor admonished his audience. Striking out at "specialinterest" groups, he said: "I have resisted them before, and I hope the Almighty will give me the strength to do so again and again. And I should tell you, my fellow Legionnaires . . . that I intend to resist pressure from veterans also." With obvious reference to Fellow Legionnaire Joe McCarthy, Stevenson denounced attacks on the loyalty of General Marshall and called them an example of the kind of patriotism "which is, in Dr. Johnson's phrase, the last...
Next day, speaking before the New York State Democratic Convention, the Democratic candidate made a careful pitch to one of the nation's largest "specialinterest" groups-its Negro voters. He was "favorably impressed," said Stevenson, by a proposed bill which would create a federal Fair Employment Practices Commission, but which would also encourage the federal commission to stay out of any state which had an effective FEPC law of its own. In a speech accepting the presidential nomination of New York's Liberal Party, he continued to hammer at the civil rights theme, and went on to denounce...
Shortly before he left New York for Springfield and a weekend of work on his Labor Day speech, it became clear that Stevenson's appeal to the Negro "specialinterest" group had paid off. Said Representative Adam Clayton Powell, who had threatened to lead a Negro "boycott" of Stevenson and Sparkman: "We are just going all out for him now. The platform has been spelled out in his speeches of last night. All doubts about him have been removed from my mind...