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...part, these successes reflect the fact that Stratton was working with a legislature controlled by his own party. (Adlai Stevenson had a majority in only the lower house during his first session, in neither during the second.) But the Stratton successes also refect a high degree of practical political ability...
When a boyish-looking Republican named William G. Stratton was elected governor of Illinois last year, not much was expected of him. The 39-year-old politician with a pompadour and an adolescent voice seemed unlikely to fill Adlai Stevenson's shoes. The liberals labeled Stratton a reactionary. Even the old pols in his own party looked upon him as an upstart, and some of them had an uncomplimentary nickname for him: "Billy...
Last week, as the Illinois legislature packed up and went home, the Republican detractors of Billy the Kid were looking back on his first six months in office with amazed admiration. Stratton's record made slow-starting Adlai Stevenson's first six months in office look like a political-science-class picnic...
...governor of Illinois will sign the loyalty oath and investigation bills Adlai E. Stevenson vetoed. Gov. Monte Stratton, Republican, has indicated that when the two bills of Senator Paul Broyles come to his desk, as they seem certain to do, he will sign them into...
...head table sat Theologian Jacques Maritain and Labor Leaders John L. Lewis and James B. Carey, Illinois' Governor William G. Stratton and Capitalist Marshall Field. Chicago's Episcopal Bishop Wallace Conkling gave the benediction and Rabbi Louis Binstock of Temple Sholom asked God's blessing on Bishop Sheil in Hebrew. A check for $131,582 was presented to the bishop for his various funds, and 26 separate awards, each with appropriate words of praise, kept coming until midnight...