Word: stateswoman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...created here as a gabby, to-hell-with-the-consequences liberal . . . Hubert Humphrey is still a pretty glib and cocky fellow, who looks like a cross between Bugs Bunny and Jimmy Cagney, but the Senate has amended its opinion of him upward in the last six years." Democratic Elder Stateswoman Eleanor Roosevelt said that Humphrey comes closest of all top Democratic presidential possibilities to having that "spark of greatness" that the next U.S. President will need.* And from California's Congressman James Roosevelt came word that Mother knows best...
...drive got under way, 70-year-old Alice Morrison Nash sat in the crowded ballroom of Manhattan's Statler Hotel one night last week and listened to tributes from Nobel Prizewinner Pearl Buck, Stateswoman Ruth Bryan Rohde and New Jersey Governor Alfred E. Driscoll. She nodded happily at the applause of friends, former students and parents who had gathered to honor her, then prepared to return to her boys & girls at Vineland...