Word: stevensonism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pressure brought to bear on Boris Pasternak by his own countrymen should shock every liberal in the Western world. I wonder if America's liberals have sent their protests against this barbarism to the leaders of Russia? I believe Adlai Stevenson and Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt should make their disgust widely known as should our own government leaders. If our liberals cannot attack this phony Communist love for artists, they should defrost their phony liberal heads...
...Ranch in Texas answering telephone calls from newly elected Democrats, greeting visitors, wheeling and dealing as the Democratic Party's leader-in-action. Pat Brown, who needs to get himself known outside California, was off on a get-acquainted tour, visiting such elder Democrats as Adlai Stevenson, Averell Harriman and Harry Truman. Stu Symington was vacationing in Puerto Rico; his strategy has been to keep quiet and let his competitors knock one another off. And Jack Kennedy was campaigning in Alaska-just as he has been campaigning ever since 1956 in a marathon effort to make friends and influence...
...them are just waiting for Brown to make his first mistake. Then they're going to run wild"); 3) even to control the California delegation as a favorite-son candidate, Brown may have to fight Senator-elect Clair Engle and National Committeeman Paul Ziffren, both longtime Adlai Stevenson rooters, and neither very fond of Pat Brown...
...days later Brown was off on his cross-country get-acquainted tour, seeing top Democratic leaders, paying his respects to Stevenson, Harriman, Meyner and Truman. An omission that may prove to be unfortunate: the Texas ranch of Lyndon Baines Johnson, Democratic leader of the U.S. Senate, a man who knows most of the party answers and a presidential possibility in his own right...
...Adlai Stevenson. He did not noticeably alter the campaign's outcome in the four states where he campaigned, did not increase or diminish his own chances for a third nomination. Stevenson denies all presidential ambition, gives the impression he will take the nomination only if the convention offers...