Word: stevensonism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Defeated presidential candidate Adlai E. Stevenson has been appointed to the special top-level Democratic advisory committee to frame legislative proposals, he revealed yesterday...
...Stevenson said last night that he had "not yet accepted," but his discussion of it earlier in the day indicated that he would...
...former Illinois Governor was in Cambridge visiting his grandson, Adlai E. Stevenson IV, who was four weeks old yesterday, the boy's parents, Adlai E. Stevenson III '52, 3L and his wife Nancy, and his two other sons, Borden Stevenson 1L, and John Fell Stevenson...
...Stevenson's appointment to the committee, of which no other members have been named, constitutes a significant step in trying to insure the influence of the group, for, despite his recent defeat, he remains the party's most articulate and commanding figure...
...Northern Democratic attempt to create a continuing idea and strategy group for the defeated party is a plan which has been tried unsuccessfully be- fore. The appointment of Stevenson might tend to give more weight to the recommendations of the committee to Congressional leader. Southern conservative leadership, however, which holds nine of sixteen Senate committee chairmanships cannot be expected to give in quickly to any demands to reverse its tactics of agreeing and working with President Eisenhower...