Word: truman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...began when Estes Kefauver called a press conference in the Congressional Room of Washington's venerable Willard Hotel-the same room where he had launched his campaign last December. There, standing by accident beneath an EXIT sign and flanked by grim-faced Manager Florence ("Jiggs") Donohue and onetime Truman Attorney General J. Howard McGrath, Estes sadly read off his statement. Stevenson, "alone with me," fought his way through the primaries, said Estes; Stevenson had polled "over 600,000 votes more than I." Since Estes did not want to see a deadlock at the convention (and, by inference, the possible...
...plate Harriman testimonial dinner. Everything seemed off-key. When Rabbi Julius K. Guttman of Troy rose to say the blessing, the band broke into Happy Days Are Here Again. Hoped for by Ave and his aides but never received: a message of good will from Harry Truman (see below...
Tennessee's Governor Frank Goad Clement. As the keynote speaker at the Democratic convention, Clement hopes that his stem-winding, evangelistic style of oratory will inspire the delegates to nominate him for Vice President, and last week he tactfully sought fatherly preconvention advice from Mr. Democrat Harry Truman in Kansas City. Clement's chances for 1956 are dim, but his Democratic future, at 36, is bright...
...Connecticut, Michigan and Maryland), they would have been expected to vote Democratic in 1952. These shifters-whom we shall call 'normally Democratic Catholics' -constituted approximately 7% of Eisenhower's total nationwide vote. If Stevenson could have held in 1952 only those Catholics who had voted for Truman in 1948 but for Ike in 1952-or if he could recapture them in 1956-this would add 132 electoral votes to the Democratic column, enough when combined with the Solid South to provide a majority of electoral votes...
COLORADO. The state convention met to hear speeches by Stevenson, Kefauver and Harriman, and to pick an uninstructed 20-vote delegation which leans strongly to Adlai. Harry Truman's Agriculture Secretary Charles Brannan and ex-Congressman John Carroll got approval to fight it out for the Democratic senatorial nomination in a Sept. 11 primary. The winner will square off against ailing Republican Eugene Millikin in November...