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...Senate's coalition of Republicans and Southern Democrats, only half successful in its fight against Henry Wallace, has been pointing up for a fuller victory. If they could not keep Wallace out of the Commerce Department, there was one thing they could do: keep leftish, New Dealer Aubrey Willis Williams from becoming Rural Electrification Administrator...
Last week, after a debate notable for irrelevant oratory and the bored absence of most Senators, the time came to strike. Franklin Roosevelt's nomination of Aubrey Williams was rejected...
...Fight. Lean-jawed, contentious Aubrey Williams, social-worker protégé of Harry Hopkins, had been an easy target. Before the Agricultural Committee, the fight was led by Tennessee's knob-nosed, choleric Kenneth McKellar, an old Williams foe, and no holds were barred...
When it was all over, Aubrey Williams had his own interpretation. In the headquarters of the National Farmers Union, where he works as an organizer, he said he was defeated "because I openly espouse the idea of getting [political] power into the hands of the common people. . . . I'm just Joe Doaks in this thing. . . ." In the manner of P.A.C., Aubrey Williams' Farm Union friends threatened to go into Senatorial bailiwicks for a "total war of issues...
...Senate then turned to another Presidential appointee: long-jawed, leftish Aubrey Willis Williams, ex-head of the National Youth Administration. After a three weeks' examination of his qualifications for the office of Rural Electrification Administrator, the Senate Agriculture Committee voted 12-to-8 last week to reject him. The Senate was in a mood to do the same. Urged to ask Franklin Roosevelt to withdraw his nomination before it came to a vote, Williams stuck out his chin and retorted, "Hell...