Word: stevensonism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...replacement must unfortunately be limited by considerations of partisanry. Because of the President's refusal to concern himself very deeply with foreign policy, he will want a nominee whom he can trust completely as he trusted Dulles. This is a criterion which excludes the candidacies of Adlai Stevenson, George Kennan or Chester Bowles. It is just not possible to conceive any of these men enjoying the trust and latitude which Dulles' relationship with the President gave...
...Committeeman Paul Ziffren, who swung the site-selection committee to Los Angeles. Beyond that, they are convinced that the liberal climate of a Los Angeles convention would work against their reaching a North-South compromise necessary for a united party in the 1960 elections. ¶ Los Angeles is Adlai Stevenson territory, and Paul Ziffren is one of the oldest and most devoted of Stevenson's followers. Since Ziffren would presumably be in charge of convention arrangements (with 6,000 gallery tickets to pass out), the admirers of such presidential hopefuls as Massachusetts' John Kennedy and Missouri...
Unlike her Republican parents, Alice, who traveled to Russia last year in the party with Adlai Stevenson, an old family friend, considers herself "a Stevensonian Democrat," but adds: "My political views are probably pretty immature." Certain that she wants to go into the newspaper business but uncertain whether she will settle in Newsday territory ("It's hard to pick out a man that lives on Long Island"), Alice knows what kind of paper she would like to run: "The New York Times with guts...
...Mikoyan was not here to scout for his country. Indeed he was here for the opposite purpose. He came in the same way that Stevenson and Humphrey went to his country. He came in peace -for the purpose of promoting peaceful trade...
...current income. From the House, Speaker Sam Rayburn allowed that Ike's request for an increase in gasoline taxes (from 3? to 4½?) would get a "pretty cold reception." On the spend-and-spend side was a bulletin from the Democratic Advisory Council (Averell Harriman, Adlai Stevenson, Harry S. Truman, et al.) that damned the budget provisions as "weak and inadequate . . . Pocketbook before people . . . Close to being a fraud on the American people...