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1 day ago · Senator Estes Kefauver had been investigating pharmaceutical companies for price fixing and for years had been trying to pass a drug reform bill. Unsuccessfully. Thalidomide could change that.
3 days ago · It’s ancient history to anybody alive today in terms of politics, but it was Estes Kefauver, Averell Harriman, Adlai Stevenson, those kinds of names. Being raised in Little Italy in Baltimore, we didn’t have anybody in the neighborhood with names like that.
3 days ago · Senator Estes Kefauver of Tennessee won most of the presidential primaries and entered the 1952 Democratic National Convention with the largest number of delegates, but he was unpopular with President Truman and other prominent Democrats.
4 days ago · The Debate Team. The contest was a rematch from 1952, when Dwight Eisenhower had routed former Illinois governor Adlai Stevenson. The incumbent president was expected to be victorious a second ...
5 days ago · The charismatic young New Englander’s near victory and his televised speech of concession (Estes Kefauver won the vice presidential nomination) brought him into some 40 million American homes. Overnight he had become one of the best-known political figures in the country.
2 days ago · Mobster Frank Costello testifying before the Kefauver Committee. May 11, 1950: Kefauver Committee hearings into U.S. organized crime began
2 days ago · Kurtzman’s boss at EC Comics, William Gaines had been grilled over the coals by Senator Estes Kefauver of Tennessee about the content of his comics, including Haunt of Fear and The Vault of Horror.
