With less than a month to go in the 1952 presidential election, Democratic candidate Adlai Stevenson, the governor of Illinois, landed his chartered plane in Spokane for a stump speech Oct. 15, 1952.

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Adlai Stevenson, who tried to "talk sense to the American people," was an old-fashioned intellectual who believed in long speeches and the power of words. But in 1952, Stevenson faced his Republican ...

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The presidential campaign had only three weeks left to run, but the Republicans still didn’t hate Adlai Stevenson and the Democrats still didn’t hate Ike. In 1952, the two-platoon system had come to ...

Former U.S. Sen. Adlai E. Stevenson III, the fourth generation of an iconic Illinois Democratic political family to hold public office and who lost the closest governor’s race in state history, died ...

In the fading light of a hot summer day last week, Adlai Stevenson and a few friends left the Chicago Yacht Club, got into a taxi, and headed back to his living quarters at the Sheraton-Blackstone ...

FRANKFURT, July 10 (Stars and Stripes) — Adlai E. Stevenson, 1952 Democratic Presidential candidate, said here tonight "the West definitely is winning the Cold War." He pointed to the June 17 riots in ...

{mosads}”The names they told me my donkey would be [were] Adlai, Estes [and] Averell,” she said, referring to Gov. Adlai Stevenson (Ill.), Sen. Estes Kefauver (Tenn.) and New York’s Averell Harriman — ...

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Former Illinois Sen. Adlai Stevenson III (D) has died at the age of 90. Stevenson’s son, Adlai Stevenson IV, confirmed to the Chicago Sun-Times that his father died on Monday in Chicago, adding he had ...