Word: stevensonism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...light of Eisenhower-Nixon endorsements of Forbes, Meyner's success was all the sweeter because it was a do-it-yourself kind of victory. He had firmly rejected outside aid, i.e., from Harry Truman, Adlai Stevenson and Massachusetts' Senator Jack Kennedy. Meyner billboards did not even worry about the word Democrat. In short, Bob Meyner did it on his record, his personality and a well-oiled, new-model state machine. Said he modestly: "Whatever outside political influence the New Jersey verdict may be deemed to have, I leave to others...
Wyeth himself would have laughed at being compared in any way to the old masters. Not Ovid or the Apostle John, but men such as Daniel Defoe, James Fenimore Cooper, Robert Louis Stevenson and Jules Verne inspired his brush. He painted for children chiefly-half the time for the publishing house of Scribner, which has sold some 1,700,000 of his "Illustrated Classics," from Treasure Island (1911) to The Yearling (1939). Thirteen are still in print, and the set as a whole is a living monument to a magnificent artist...
Aiken Condemns Stevenson Appointment...
WASHINGTON, Nov. 17--Senator George Aiken (R-Vt.) said today it is "absurd" to believe the Eisenhower administration can win real bipartisan cooperation in international affairs by inviting Adlai E. Stevenson to become an adviser...
Aiken, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said, "I don't know what President Eisenhower expects to gain by inviting Stevenson in." "If it is intended as a demonstration of unity, it isn't going to work," Aiken noted...