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| | Adlai E. Stevenson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Stevenson served as a delegate to the Democratic convention of 1884 that nominated Grover Cleveland. | | | Stevenson was admitted to the bar in 1858, at age 23, and commenced practice in Metamora, in Woodford County, Illinois. | | | Stevenson was mentioned as a candidate to succeed Cleveland in 1896. |
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| | Adlai Stevenson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Stevenson received his law degree (J.D.) from Northwestern in 1926 and passed the Illinois State Bar examination that year. | | | Adlai Ewing Stevenson II (February 5, 1900 – July 14, 1965) was an American politician and statesman, noted for his skill in debate and oratory. | | | Stevenson became interested in law again a year or so after leaving Harvard after attending a friend’s wedding in Washington DC, when he spent an afternoon talking to Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. |
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| | Adlai Stevenson |
| | Stevenson was elected state’s attorney for the Metamora judicial district in 1864, and served for four years. | | | Stevenson was nominated for Vice President at the 1892 Democratic national convention. | | | When Stevenson was nominated for the US Supreme Court in 1889, the Senate’s Republican majority refused to confirm him. |
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| | Adlai Stevenson |
| | Adlai Ewing Stevenson (February 5, 1900-July 14, 1965), politician and diplomat, was twice the Democratic Party's candidate for President of the United States. | | | Stevenson spent 1933-34 in Washington, D.C. where he was counsel to the Agricultural Adjustment Administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt's "New Deal." He returned to Washington, from 1941-44, to serve as special assistant and personal counsel to Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox. | | | Following his term as Governor he was drafted by the Democratic National Committee to run for President against the popular war hero General Dwight D. Eisenhower. |
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| | Commentary Magazine - Adlai Stevenson in Retrospect |
| | ...Stevenson was similarly impressed by Knox, who had ridden with Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders, who was strongly opposed to the New, Deal, and who in his late sixties nevertheless accepted a strenuous bipartisan political assignment that he must have known was destined to shorten his life... | | | ...In "The Hiss Case," Stevenson struck back at McCarthy, at Nixon, and at Eisenhower, who, despite his pretensions of running a Crusade, stood by while this sort of muck was being spread on his behalf... | | | ...Moreover, before he agreed to run for office, Stevenson extracted from the party pros the promise that he would be entirely free to make his own major appointments, including, if he so chose, Republicans and independents... |
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http://www.commentarymagazine.com/Summaries/V46I6P73-1.htm
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| | Adlai Stevenson |
| | Stevenson's ambivalence about seeking the Democratic presidential nomination a third time strained his friendship with ER, and their relationship was permanently altered as a result. | | | A grandson and namesake of Grover Cleveland's vice-president, Stevenson was raised in Illinois where his parents' families had long been prominent politically, economically, and socially. | | | In 1945 he went to the State Department where he helped organize the United Nations and served as an advisor to its first American delegation, including Eleanor Roosevelt. |
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http://www.nps.gov/elro/glossary/stevenson-adlai.htm
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| | Adlai E. Stevenson |
| | The Stevenson family had a long history of political involvement beginning with Jesse Fell, his maternal great-grandfather, who, during the 19th century, was a prominent Republican and an early Abraham Lincoln supporter. | | | Stevenson campaigned vigorously to Americans to join his "New America." Some of his liberal agenda items were later used by the Kennedy and Johnson administration. | | | Having been intentionally misinformed by the White House, Stevenson considered resigning from his position as U.N. ambassador, but was convinced he should remain. |
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| | Adlai E. Stevenson -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | Stevenson, Adlai E. The 23rd vice-president of the United States was Adlai E. Stevenson, who served in the Democratic administration of Grover Cleveland from 1893 to 1897. | | | During his campaign for the 1960 Democratic nomination, Kennedy often began his speeches with this remark: “Thanks for not voting for me in 1956.&; That was the year he barely missed being nominated vice-president on the Democratic ticket. | | | As vice-president, he strongly supported Cleveland's policies and won wide admiration for his impartiality as presiding officer of the Senate. |
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| | Stevenson, Adlai E(wing) |
| | Adlai E. Stevenson (1893-97), by entering the practice of law (Chicago, 1926) and devoting himself to public service. | | | Stevenson was defeated a second time four years later, again by Eisenhower. | | | He was named senior adviser to the U.S. delegation at the first meeting of the UN General Assembly in London (1946) and was a U.S. delegate at Assembly meetings in New York (1946-47). |
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| | Stevenson, Adlai Ewing |
| | Wilson, Stevenson later recalled, was extremely courteous to him, asking whether he was interested in politics and referring casually to the fact that he had been president of Princeton before becoming governor of New Jersey. | | | Although he failed to win two presidential elections, Stevenson exercised extraordinary influence on American politics in his time. | | | His maternal great-grandfather, Jesse Fell, a founder of the Republican party, was a close friend of Abraham Lincoln and the first to propose him for the presidency. |
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http://etcweb1.princeton.edu/CampusWWW/Companion/stevenson_adlai.html
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| | Adlai Stevenson |
| | Miraculously, Grandfather Stevenson flourished politically in Republican Illinois and was elected Vice-President with Grover Cleveland in 1892. | | | We must not burn down the house to kill the rats." Despite the opposition of liberals such as Stevenson and Harry S. Truman, the Internal Security Act became law in 1950. | | | He introduced a series of reforms including a merit system for the state police, improvements in state mental hospitals and greater state aid for schools. |
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| | Adlai E. Stevenson : Alumni Exhibit: Northwestern University Archives |
| | In 1961, he was appointed Ambassador to the United Nations, a post he held until his sudden death in 1965. | | | After attending prep school in Vermont and Princeton University, he came to Northwestern University Law School, from which he graduated in 1926. | | | He later served as a lecturer on the Law School Faculty. |
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http://www.library.northwestern.edu/archives/exhibits/alumni/a-stevenson.html
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| | Welcome to The American Presidency |
| | Stevenson, Adlai Ewing II American politician and diplomat Adlai Ewing Stevenson II was born on February 5, 1900, in Los Angeles, California. | | | Stevenson obtained a law degree from Northwestern University in 1926 and later joined the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, where he gained knowledge of international affairs. | | | His interest in public service was no doubt inspired by his grandfather, Adlai Ewing Stevenson, who had served as vice president (1893-97) under President Grover Cleveland. |
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| | Guardian Unlimited Special reports Was it an Adlai Stevenson moment? Powell did not even come close, says UN veteran |
| | Stevenson's son, also named Adlai and a former senator himself, agreed there was no comparison with his father's presentation and Colin Powell's. | | | But Stevenson's presentation to the security council on October 25, 1962, using 26 black and white aerial pictures, became a historic standard for diplomatic coups, and the standard against which Mr Powell will be judged. | | | Mr Schlesinger had been sent to New York to bolster Stevenson, a failed Democratic presidential candidate who Kennedy had made UN envoy but whose mettle the president doubted. |
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,889802,00.html
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| | About Adlai E Stevenson |
| | Stevenson was later appointment as ambassador to the United Nations. | | | He urged Presidents Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson to heed world opinion and use UN machinery. | | | As ambassador, he battled to safeguard and strengthen the world organization, as in his successful resistance to Russian efforts to weaken the office of secretary general. |
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http://stevenson.ucsc.edu/node/53
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| | Vice President Adlai Stevenson |
| | The Republicans got even when they refused to confirm Cleveland's nomination of Stevenson to a federal court seat in 1889, during his first term. | | | He was nominated to the Vice Presidency because of his "soft-money" views, which balanced out Cleveland's "hard money" policies. | | | Dates Served: Stevenson served as Vice President from 1893 - 1897. |
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| | NPR's Weekend Edition Saturday -- Scott Simon's Essays |
| | I grew up hearing my parents recollect the thrill of listening to Adlai Stevenson speak when he unexpectedly became the Democratic nominee for president in 1952; and I remember my own excitement when I was thirteen, and my father and I stood near the rear of public plaza along the Chicago River to hear Mr. | | | Unfortunately, today politicians often laud Adlai Stevenson for his eloquence -- but resolve never to emulate him. | | | I have a friend who was a teenager in the 1950s, and came home once to find her father, a Republican senator, stretched out with his eyes closed, crying as he listened to Adlai Stevenson speak. |
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| | Adlai Stevenson on USS Liberty |
| | Many feel it was his support for the Liberty that cost him the election. | | | Secretary of State Dean Rusk said later that he considered the payments meaningless, as Congress merely increased the annual Israeli allotment by that amount. | | | Senator Adlai Stevenson III in 1980, his last year as a United States Senator from Illinois, invited Jim Ennes to his Senate office for a private, two hour meeting to discuss the USS Liberty attack and cover-up. |
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| | Adlai Stevenson quiz -- free game |
| | Where was the 1952 Democratic National Convention held, that eventually nominated Stevenson for the presidency? | | | In the 1952 general election, how many states did Stevenson win that were not part of the old Confederate States of America? | | | One of Stevenson's relatives served as vice-president of the United States. |
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| | Adlai Stevenson |
| | Adlai Stevenson studied at Princeton and Harvard, continuing on to earn a degree in law from Northwestern University. | | | From 1961 to his death, Stevenson served as the US Ambassador to the United Nations, campaigning for an optimistic American attitude toward the UN. | | | During World War II, Stevenson was a special counsel to Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, serving as an alternate delegate to the United Nations after the war. |
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| | Gogo / Adlai Stevenson rumor debunked |
| | Furthermore Russia does not have states; it has provinces. | | | Stevenson, also known as "the Egghead", was from the United States. | | | The rumor is in the form of FIVE QUOTES by a politician named Adlai Stevenson. |
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| | About Adlai Stevenson |
| | A – Adlai attended Washington School in Bloomington, Illinois. | | | A - Adlai Stevenson was raised in Bloomington, Illinois | | | D – Dueled Dwight D. Eisenhower verbally in two major presidential |
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| | Adlai Stevenson |
| | Grandson and namesake of Grover Cleveland's second Vice President, Adlai... | | | Find where Adlai Stevenson is credited alongside another name | | | Discuss this person with other users on IMDb message board for Adlai Stevenson |
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| | Word Spy - Adlai Stevenson |
| | —Adlai Stevenson, American politician and diplomat, speech, 1952 | | | When political ammunition runs low, inevitably the rusty artillery of abuse is wheeled into action. | | | Posted on December 18, 1998 at 7:25 AM |
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| | Adlai Stevenson Speaks Rca Victor |
| | Adlai Stevenson Speaks - RCA Victor LP #1769 c.1953Vintage 1970's RICHARD J. DALEY Mayor CHICAGO Poster1933 Official Inaugural Program for FDR and GarnerKucinich Autographed Dept. of Peace Cards Press Sheet FROM 1956, STEVENSON FOR PREZ UNOPENED CIGARETTES! | | | Home > Collectibles > Historical Memorabilia > Political > US > Democratic Party > Other Party Items > Adlai Stevenson Speaks Rca Victor | | | Adlai Stevenson Funeral Press Pass and TicketKucinich Autographed Quotation Book: Political SoulJ. |
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| | Adlai Stevenson, The Wisdom and Wit |
| | Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., retort to a heckler asking him to state his beliefs, Time, November 1, 1963 | | | Adlai Stevenson Speech at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, October 8, 1952 | | | During his 1956 presidential campaign, a woman called out to Adlai E Stevenson 'Senator, you have the vote of every thinking person!' Stevenson called back 'That's not enough, madam, we need a majority!' |
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| | H.S. 450 Adlai E. Stevenson High School |
| | I am currently attending Stevenson HS, I am a senior, the salutatory, in the Gateway honors program, the National Honor Society President, and on my way to a great university. | | | During our two-hour visit to Adlai Stevenson High School, we were not allowed to visit classes, but we did see one young person led out of the school in handcuffs and three students, accompanied by their parents, request "safety transfers" to enroll at other schools. | | | Joyce Berk, the school's law coordinator, writes, "In September 2004, I shall be starting my 25th year at Adlai E. Stevenson High School. |
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| | Adlai Stevenson - Uncyclopedia |
| | Adlai "Gogo" Stevenson was born on April 2, 1965. | | | He is known for taking over the world twice and becoming governor of Loompa land. |
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| | Adlai E. Stevenson High School |
| | Stevenson is doing its part to bring art and music back to the Bayou by celebrating Mardi Gras Feb. 21-28 and "adopting" Ben Franklin High School in New Orleans. | | | Adlai E. Stevenson High School • One Stevenson Drive • Lincolnshire, IL 60069 • 847/634.4000 • © 2003-2005 Adlai E. Stevenson High School | | | In particular, Stevenson is going to use its Mardi Gras week to raise money to help Ben Franklin purchase art supplies and musical instruments. |
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| | ADLAI STEVENSON |
| | This poem was written for Adlai’s presidential campaign. | | | The North and the South are for Adlai, | | | Those who visit are not granted permission to copy or distribute any of these writings without written permission. |
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| | Time: Recovering. Adlai Stevenson III.@ HighBeam Research |
| | Adlai Stevenson III, 55, former Democratic Senator from Illinois (1970-80) and problematic gubernatorial candidate since resigning from the Democratic ticket last month after the shocking primary... | | | Search for more information on HighBeam Research for. |
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| | Founded in 1966, Stevenson is one of the first colleges at UCSC. | | | Whether your question is about what courses you should take, how you can best get along with your roommate, or what are your best career options — we are here to assist you in making your time as a student at UCSC as productive and enjoyable as possible. | | | In addition, the staff at Stevenson is especially dedicated to offering the best possible support for our students. |
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| | 56435. Stevenson, Adlai. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996 |
| | In America any boy may become President, and I suppose it’s just one of the risks he takes! | | | speech, Sept. 26, 1952, Indianapolis, Ind. Major Campaign Speeches of Adlai E. Stevenson: 1952 (1953). | | | Shaw, G.B. Stein, G. Stevenson, R.L. Wells, H.G. Reference > Quotations > The Columbia World of Quotations |
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| | Adlai E. Stevenson Quotes |
| | Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction. | | | All Quotes are provided for educational purposes only and contributed by users. | | | 20 Quotes for 'Adlai E. Stevenson' in the Database. |
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| | Adlai Stevenson |
| | Father: Lewis Green Stevenson (Illinois Secretary of State) | | | Submit a correction or make a comment about this profile |
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| | Adlai E. Stevenson quotes |
| | Authors > A Ado > Adlai E. Stevenson | | | Add the "Dynamic Daily Quotation" to Your Site or Blog - it's Easy! |
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