Word: stevensonism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Democratic National Chairman Paul Butler. California National Committeeman Paul Ziffren and other dogged Stevenson enthusiasts dreamed up the Democratic Advisory Committee to pressure for liberal legislation in Congress (TIME, Dec. 10), they ranged 20 chairs around the advisory table and hopefully named 20 Democrats to fill them. Three seats were quickly claimed by Harry Truman, Adlai Stevenson and Estes Kefauver. But Eleanor Roosevelt gracefully declined (her newspaper syndicate, she explained, might object), and Virginia's ex-Governor John S. Battle announced that he would not become a member under any circumstances. Last week came the ultimate blow when...
...Godkin Lectures honor the memory of Edwin L. Godkin, British-American journalist of the 19th century who founded The Nation and edited the New York Evening Post. Recent lecturers have included Adlai Stevenson, Harold E. Stassen, and John J. McCloy, former U.S. High Commissioner in Germany...
Chicago Lawyer Adlai E. Stevenson, twice-landslided Democratic candidate for the White House, now serving on his party's national advisory committee, announced: "I will not run again for the presidency . . . But my interest in the Democratic Party . . . will continue un-diminished...
Last week, in view of the many big names (e.g., Adlai Stevenson) that rumor had bandied about as possible successors to Dodds, Goheen was as startled as anyone over "this elevation to sudden eminence." But like Harvard and Yale before it, Princeton had dipped into obscurity and pulled out a plum. "He is," says Classicist Oates of Goheen. "one of the ablest men in the whole damn teaching profession...
...considerably clarified the situation, for the committee and for the liberals in the Senate. Were Johnson and Rayburn to serve on the committee, they could easily keep it from reaching any constructive positions by dilatory and factious tactics. Now the committee can serve as an important pressure group. True, Stevenson, Truman and Mrs. Roosevelt have neither votes nor patronage to dispense, but their views have considerable influence on uncommitted Democrats. With an effective research staff they could form a useful liberal voice of national prestige, with the wide respect that Americans for Democratic Action has never attained...