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Adlai Ewing Stevenson II (/ ˈ æ d l eɪ /; February 5, 1900 – July 14, 1965) was an American politician and diplomat and who was the United States ambassador to the United Nations from 1961 until his death in 1965.
Sheriffs' deputies asked the firemen to turn their hoses on the rioters, who refused to do so without their lieutenant, who was unavailable. The situation appeared to be out of control and County Sheriff John E. Babbs asked Illinois Governor Adlai Stevenson to send in the Illinois National Guard. As troops arrived at the scene, the rioters ...
The Living Room Candidate is a website created by the American Museum of the Moving Image in 2004. [1] [2] It consists of U.S. presidential election campaign commercials dating back to the Dwight D. Eisenhower — Adlai Stevenson race of 1952.
Adlai Stevenson was called an "egghead" by Richard Nixon during the 1952 U.S. presidential race.. In U.S. English slang, egghead is an epithet used to refer to intellectuals or people considered out-of-touch with ordinary people and lacking in realism, common sense, sexual interests, etc. on account of their intellectual interests.
The convention was marked by a "free vote" for the vice presidential nomination in which the winner, Kefauver, defeated Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts. As of 2024 [update] , this was the last time any presidential or vice presidential nomination of either the Democratic or Republican parties, went past the first ballot.
“Just Mercy,” the powerful legal drama about a wrongfully convicted African-American man on death row, has been made free to watch this month by Warner Bros. “We believe in the power of ...
In 1967 Polk became president of the Adlai Stevenson Institute of International Affairs, which hosted the 20th Pugwash Conference on nuclear weapons problems, helped organize the “Table Ronde” meeting which laid groundwork for the European Union, and contributed to planning the United Nations Environmental Program. [2]
A member of the British royal family's household has left her role after making "unacceptable and deeply regrettable" comments about race and nationality to a woman at a reception at Buckingham ...