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During his 5?? years as Senate majority leader, facing a Republican President, Johnson proved himself to be one of U.S. history's ablest masters of the subtle, complex art of legislative leadership. And he exercised that leadership with statesmanlike responsibility. A Southerner, utterly dependent upon Southern support in his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination, he painstakingly steered through the Senate this year a civil rights bill guaranteeing the voting rights of Southern Negroes. Instead of trying to use the U-2 imbroglio and the summit collapse to embarrass the Administration in an election year, he spoke out for national...
...captured the admiration of the racing world's two indispensable castes, the expert horsemen and the two-buck bettors. Every time he goes, bettors by the thousands trust him to the extent of wagering $1 to win a measly 5??. A South American millionaire recently produced figures to prove that he could have added more to the family fortunes last year by betting Native Dancer to show (a minimum of 5% profit) than by investing in securities or playing the stock market...
Died. William Wallace Atterbury, 69, onetime (1925-35) President of Pennsylvania R. R.; of apoplexy induced by arteriosclerosis; in Bryn Mawr, Pa. Son of a lawyer who turned Presbyterian preacher, young William, with a degree from Yale, started in the Pennsylvania's Altoona shops at 5?? an hour. In 1917 he went to France when Pershing cabled Secretary Baker to send him "the ablest railroad man in the U. S.," was commissioned Brigadier General (admiring soldiers called him "General Attaboy"), set up a rail transport system that won him decorations from many an Allied government. An able handler and picker...
Today he has his onetime partner at a disadvantage, for Davis Wilson is a hot campaigner. Husky, red-faced, hoarse-voiced, he flails with his arms, thinks nothing of making six speeches a day, once fainted from exhaustion during a radio address. He, too, campaigns for a 5?? fare, throws in promises of cheaper gas and electricity for good measure...
...machine Democrats who, by grace of Boss Vare, had for years played piccolo in Philadelphia's political orchestra. Today City Boss Kelly can and has told State Boss Guffey what he would and would not permit. This week he is running for Mayor on the platform of a 5?? fare (in place of 7½¢ tokens), WPA money to rebuild Philadelphia's slums, sandblasting for the outside of the City Hall, ejection of bums who sleep in its corridors, an eight instead of a five-hour day for city employes. His nomination is conceded and his chances of election...