Word: stevensonism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...incumbents are Mrs. Pearl K. Wise and former Mayor Edward Crane '35 on the City Council, and Mrs. Catherine Ogden on the School Committee. The CCA, however, has endorsed 13 others, all comparative newcomers to city politics, with the exception of Robert G. Conley, co-ordinator of two Stevenson campaigns, and William Galgay, former 3-term School Committee member...
...South could only invite what Ashmore regards as the equal evil of enforced integration. He has pushed that premise in two books, The Negro and the Schools (1954) and his upcoming An Epitaph for Dixie, and in Democratic party politics, which he entered as civil-rights adviser to Adlai Stevenson in 1956. ("How many Democratic editors were there available?" he asks...
...Republicans those Eisenhower Democrats who last year helped Ike win Texas, Louisiana, Florida and Tennessee-and might have skewered hopes of a Republican Southern wing. But the Democratic Party was in far worse shape. The Little Rock crisis crumbled the shaky foundation of compromise which had underlain Adlai Stevenson's 1956 campaign and the Democratic record in the first session of the 85th Congress. Too late, Democrats last week were beginning to suspect that by attempting to be all things to all factions in the field of civil rights they had faubused badly...
...jaded Jimmy Byrnes. Attorney General Brownell had pushed Ike into action, Byrnes said, because Brownell was frightened by "the high command of the national Democratic Party" and its attacks on the President's do-nothing attitude. In the high command he identified National Chairman Paul Butler, Adlai Stevenson, Harry Truman, New York's Governor Averell Harriman and Michigan's Governor G. Mennen Williams. "Goaded" by these Democrats, he said, "the President and Mr. Brownell had to take drastic action in order to hold the voters of these minority groups." Almost to a man, Deep South Democrats leaped...
Such rugged academic programs attract crack high-school graduates to all six schools. "We discourage any student who just wants a roof over his head for four years," says Oberlin's President William E. Stevenson. Oberlin gets 75% of its students from outside Ohio, has been called the best coed college in the nation. Each spring, talent scouts from top graduate schools show up to recruit leading seniors. Says Stevenson: "If Oberlin recommends them, they get off to a fine start." Still, Oberlin's high standards have one built-in drawback: the students sometimes become smugly complacent about...