Word: stevensonism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During the course of a campaign decided on the basis of personalities, many issues of American domestic conduct have been examined. As a result of this investigation, Adlai Stevenson has enumerated several policies which his victorious opponent would do well to consider and accept...
...Stevenson has advocated plans of action which the President, with his now-increased prestige, can effect. America can hope for a civil-rights program which creates a separate Justice Department agency to check violations of civil rights. The President must also place his moral influence behind the Supreme Court's decision. There must be immediate action to provide adequate classroom facilities and teaching salaries and benefits high enough to draw new personnel into the field. Further, the President should re-examine the needs of the aged and adopt a program of liberalized welfare benefits...
Both Republican and Democratic members of the faculty joined yesterday in ascribing the Republican landslide to President Eisenhower's tremendous popularity, but some of them also noted a pronounced anti-Stevenson trend in the voting...
...victory was always in the cards," Democrat Samuel H. Beer, professor of Government, said, but he added that many voters were anti-Stevenson because a "reflective, thoughtful person is hard to understand...
...Stevenson will bring intelligence, energy, and some definite programs to the White House. At no time has the United States needed this kind of leadership more. Eisenhower has been "good" but he has not been energetic. Like a good nurse, he has made everyone feel better. But there are deep ills in America and the world which require more than soothing. Only Stevenson seems able to provide the necessary prescription...