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...means the first attack on Minority Leader Joe Martin's do-nothing policy. But Joe Martin could not dismiss it as coming from a bunch of amateurs. Signers of the statement included such able legislators as Minnesota's Walter Judd, New York's Augustus Bennet. New Jersey's James Auchincloss, and Massachusett's Christian Herter...
...appointees, including two men from each of the upper classes, are: Arthur C. McGill '48, Frederick S. Pratt '48, E. Barr Peterson '47, Edward J. Sullivan '47, Bennet R. Keenan '46, and Saul L. Sherman '46. The members of the Council who will serve on the nominating committee are, aside, from Bell, Jerome E. Andrews of the NROTC, William S. Ellis ocC, John C. Harper '46, Peter G. Harwood of the NROTC, and Thomas L. P. O'Donnell...
...overall news was the defeat of Republican isolationism and the re-elections of Republicans with non-isolationist or liberal record. In New York, to the nation's delight, down went rabid anti-Roosevelt isolationist Hamilton Fish, after 24 years in Congress. His successor: liberal Augustus W. Bennet, 47, Newburgh lawyer. Another surprise was the defeat of the Chicago Tribune's alter ego, isolationist stalwart Stephen A. Day. Against Day and the odds, intelligent, serious Emily Taft Douglas, wife of a Chicago economics professor (now in the Marines) won her first try at big-time politics. Rednecked Marine Colonel...
...against Fish. But Ham Fish still had enough of his old-line strength in populous Orange County, which had helped send him to Congress twelve times before. Orange County gave Fish a 5,000 majority, enough to win him the Republican nomination over earnest, clean-cut Lawyer Augustus Bennet...
Third-Act Miracle. Playwright Anderson & Co. believe they can still beat Ham Fish in the finals, next November, but their plans are as confusing as the unravelings of a fifth-rate play. Candidate Bennet, who lost on the Republican ticket last week, will run in November on a party ticket of his own-the Good Government Party, with the endorsements of the Democrats and the American Labor Party. (If elected, he has vowed to serve as a Republican.) To accomplish this, Lawyer Bennet must pull a better third-act miracle than any Playwright Anderson ever carried off on the stage...