Word: stevensonism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Montgomery Advertiser-Journal, which declared for Eisenhower in 1952, did so again because he "commands public trust and confidence in a measure unsurpassed by any other." The Atlanta Journal, declaring Stevenson "best suited to the immediate and future demands of the presidency," also stuck by its 1952 choice...
...A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany, who first opposed the federation's taking an election stand, then supported an executive council decision to endorse the Democrats, backed away again in a message to 15 million union members: "Naturally, I ... hope you will vote for Stevenson and Kefauver, but the final decision is yours and yours alone...
...Harvard Crimson, polling the university for its presidential preference, reported: 1) Harvard undergraduates are split almost evenly between Eisenhower and Stevenson (1,368 to 1,338); 2) the Law School is pro-Stevenson (576 to 473); and 3) the School of Business Administration...
...Afro-American newspapers, Negro chain (14 weekly and biweekly editions-total circ. 204,000) which supported Stevenson in '52, switched to Eisenhower...
...Benjamin Spock, author of the bestselling (9,000,000 copies) The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care, and a co-chairman of the recently formed National Committee of Physicians and Surgeons for Stevenson, declared that a "high proportion" of psychiatrists are also Democrats, but "their hands are tied" in telling the public. Reason: the disclosure would "disturb their Republican patients and interfere with the healing process...