Word: stevensonism
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...politically deserving, having "pledged" Michigan's 51 votes at a crucial hour before the Democratic Convention. Kennedy skillfully and carefully built up the importance of the post of Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, announced it early with heavy fanfare, and Soapy gracefully accepted. Liberal Adlai Stevenson was headed off to be Ambassador to the United Nations, and the job was made to sound more glamorous than the Secretary of State...
...Stevenson's appointment to the United Nations: "The chief of the U.N. should be comparable in ability and standing to the Secretary of State himself...
...Harvard Law Review (1936-37). After graduation, he went to work in one of Chicago's biggest, best law firms (Sidley, Austin, Burgess & Harper), married Mary Louise Burgess, the boss's daughter. At work he became fast friends with a partner in the firm named Adlai Stevenson. After wartime service on Navy subchasers, Day went briefly back to his Chicago practice, quit in 1949 to help out Old Friend Stevenson, newly elected as Governor of Illinois, as an administrative assistant in Adlai's "kitchen cabinet." Day entertained the backroom boys with homemade limericks on Springfield politics, eventually...
...Harvard Debate Council last week elected a new state of officers for the coming year. The results of the election are as follows: President, Alan K. Henrikson '62; Vice President, Laurence Tribe '62; Director of Competitions, Charles Stevenson '63; Corresponding Secretary, J. Eugene Clements '63; Home Secretary, James Vaughter '63; Treasurer, V. Thomas Fryman '62; and Director of Publicity and Research, James Broussard...
...Kennedy's inauguration. Purpose of the entertainment: to pay off this year's $2,000,000 Democratic campaign deficit-and, Pee-tah said grandly, if there is anything left over for incidentals and has-beens, perhaps another $500,000 left over from poor Adlai Stevenson's 1956 campaign as well, since Adlai, lacking such a glittering galaxy, had had to take on dozens of speaking dates in order to bring the debt down...