Word: coonskin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Electric Coonskin. Then, overnight, he became the man in the coonskin cap. Early in 1947, Kefauver shrewdly saw that a factional split in Boss E. H. Crump's Tennessee machine might give a non-machine Democrat a chance to be Senator. He broke precedent by declaring a full ten months before the primary. He and Nancy set up campaign organizations in each of the state's 95 counties, probably shook more hands than anyone in Tennessee political history, and nettled Mistah Crump into a roar that made Kefauver famous. "Kefauver," wrote Crump in full-page newspaper advertisements through...
Washington pundits immediately began peering into political corners for more convincing reasons why Truman took the plunge. Their eyes quickly fell on the coonskin cap of Senator Estes Kefauver, already in the New Hampshire race. A lively theory evolved: worried regular Democratic leaders had convinced Truman that it is time to muffle the formidable Kefauver boom; he decided that New Hampshire is the place to thrash bold Estes...
Truman can certainly have the nomination if he wants it, but it is by no means certain that he can make the Democratic Convention accept his choice of a successor. If Truman doesn't run, the Democratic race may be wide open with a lawyer in a coonskin cap taking an early lead...
Among all the presidential campaign hats flying through the air last week was an odd furry model with a long floppy tail. It was the coonskin campaign cap of Tennessee's well-tailored Senator Estes Kefauver. The Kefauver-for-President boom was still hardly more than a boomlet. But in separate press conferences last week, two leading Democratic Senators gave the boomlet another boost. Illinois' Paul Douglas, who still wants Eisenhower for President, still hopes Harry Truman will just go quietly away, noted "increasingly favorable sentiment for Senator Kefauver." Minnesota's Fair Dealing Hubert Humphrey, who still...
...Prompting two former chairmen of the Senate's Crime Investigating Committee, Tennessee's Estes Kefauver and Maryland's Herbert O'Conor, to put up a "friendly forfeit": a coonskin cap v. a barrel of oysters...