Word: stevensonism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...meager crowds, the Vice President found audiences as fat in doubtful Buffalo as in secure Fort Wayne, Ind. Warned against hoots and hecklers, he heard in 9,000 miles three small choruses of boos. Of these, one was an impartial impoliteness that Yale undergrads had also extended to Adlai Stevenson (TIME...
...Baltimore one night later the Vice President returned angrily to the political fray, renewed attacks on Adlai Stevenson. At week's end, after eleven days and 14 states, Nixon arrived in Washington for 48 hours' rest before a final campaign assignment: one more sweep of the U.S. lasting right down to Election...
...Toledo Blade, pro-Ike in 1952, switched to Stevenson in its first endorsement of a Democratic presidential candidate in its 121-year history. The Arizona Daily Star made a similar switch. The Chicago Defender, leading Midwest Negro daily, declared for Stevenson...
...Walter White, widow of the late executive secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and a 1952 Stevenson backer, declared for Ike. So did W. Lee ("Pappy") O'Daniel. 66, onetime (1939-41) Texas governor, U.S. Senator (1941-49), and lifetime states'-righter...
...Christianity Today, new interdenominational fortnightly, polled representative Protestant clergymen in all sections of the U.S. on their presidential preference. Results: Eisenhower 85%, Stevenson 11%, undecided 4%. Key reason given by ministers for Ike: "Personal stature...