Word: wisconsin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Farmer-Labor Party gave a big push to a bill abolishing Minnesota's "costly" ten-year-old primary. Fear of the Humphreyites: G.O.P. voters might cross over in the primary to vote for Kennedy and embarrass Humphrey in his home state. Last week the Kennedy-ites scored in Wisconsin with a surprise play that broke up the attempt of Humphrey's teammates to block Kennedy from next April's Wisconsin primary...
...strategy of the Humphrey team was to persuade Wisconsin's Governor Gaylord Nelson to run in the primary as a favorite son. Thus, come convention time, he would be in a position to deliver the Wisconsin delegation to his favorite, Adlai Stevenson, or-if Stevenson means what he says about not running-Hubert Humphrey. Key Humphrey players, who worked out smoothly at the Midwest Democratic rally in Milwaukee last fortnight: Minnesota's Governor Orville Freeman, United Auto Workers' Political Operative Harvey Kitzman ("The union's support is going to Humphrey"), and Washington Lawyer James Rowe, great...
Just as they were about to score, State Chairman Patrick J. Lucey, Stevenson-pledged but Kennedy-prone, a protégé of Wisconsin's Johnson-baiting Senator William Proxmire, called a quick meeting of about a dozen of the 27 members of the party's administrative committee, got them to vote for an innocent statement in favor of allowing Wisconsin voters "to participate as fully as possible" in the Wisconsin primary. Then, before anyone knew what he was up to, Chairman Lucey mailed letters of invitation and copies of the statement to seven top Democratic hopefuls: Humphrey...
...best-bet strategy for stopping the Democratic presidential frontrunner, Massachusetts Senator Jack Kennedy. That best bet: 1) get himself identified in the Senate and on the stump as the favorite son of Midwestern Democrats; 2) challenge and beat Jack Kennedy in the Midwest in the important Wisconsin presidential primary; 3) fight hard for the well-heeled support of the strongest anti-Kennedy forces, those still hoping against hope for Adlai Stevenson...
...Russia's insistence that reunification of Germany must be negotiated directly between the West German government and East Germany's Communist bosses. And last week Eleanor Dulles, sister of John Foster and an official of the State Department's "German Desk," pointedly stated in a Wisconsin speech that "new plans for the relations of the two parts of Germany and Berlin" might be considered by the West if the Communists "wish to relax somewhat the rigors of the regime in East Germany...