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...Oberlin College (prexy: Helen's . daddy, William Edwards Stevenson). Paralleling Helen's legitimate claim of kinship with Adlai, Kentucky's back-pounding Governor Albert B. ("Happy") Chandler, darkest Democratic horse now visible at all, also clomped into the consanguinity act with a hoarse declaration of Stevensonian blood in his wife's veins.* Happy's claim was as undocumented as it was tenuous-but it gave Adlai Stevenson, if elected, a perfect out to bar Happy from his Cabinet on the pretext of no nepotic appointments. As matters stood, all that Candidate Stevenson...
...colleagues (Georgia's Walter George offered to campaign for him in 1954), other Southerners recall vividly-and bitterly-his strident civil-rights performance at the 1948 convention. Humphrey's charter membership in Americans for Democratic Action is today something less than a national political asset. Nonetheless, longtime Stevensonian Humphrey, 45, ranks high in the Stevenson camp...
That evening, after 1,250 guests at the biggest Iowa Democratic dinner in a decade had warmed up on Happy Days Are Here Again, Harry rose to demonstrate for the Stevensonian moderates just how he thinks a candidate should preach the Democratic truth. "Fellow farm sufferers . . ." he began. "In 1948 we had a Republican Congress-remember, it was the notorious, do-nothing 80th Congress . . . and that Republican Congress tried to block everything the Democratic President was trying to do for the people . . . This year we have a Democratic Congress and a Republican President. And the Congress has been trying...
...prime question about his political future Adlai Stevenson last week replied: "I don't know whether I'm going to run for President in 1956, and if I did, I wouldn't tell you." It was a true Stevensonian statement-one which, in the light of past history, made it possible to say that Stevenson was behaving mighty like a man who was thinking about a certain date all over again...
...question that interested millions of Americans, including Harry Truman, who in a wire last week acknowledged him as "the head of our party" and urged him to "revitalize the national committee and set the wheels in motion toward a victory in 1954." Harry added a sentence which many a Stevensonian might regard as a threat: "I will do everything I can to help...