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First, Angelenos don't like Walter O'Malley's shenanigans. When he won the mineral rights to Chavez Ravine, he lost the unquestioning trust which the sport-shirted Southern Californian bon vivant gave to open classification baseball...
...Passed in the Senate,. a bill to buy $1,000,000 worth of new furniture for new Senate offices. Illinois' Democrat Paul Douglas protested. New Mexico's Democrat Dennis Chavez replied that Douglas could keep his ratty old furniture if he liked, but other Senators were going to live better. Cried Minnesota's Democrat Hubert Humphrey, who hopes that the bill will improve the Senate restaurant: "Hundreds of hours every day in this capitol are wasted by officials who are paid $22,500 a year, standing in line to get something to eat, as if they were...
...John McClellan, Delaware's J. Allen Frear Jr., Georgia's Richard B. Russell and Herman E. Talmadge, Louisiana's Allen J. Ellen-der and Russell B. Long, Mississippi's James O. Eastland and John Stennis, Nevada's Alan Bible, New Mexico's Dennis Chavez, Oklahoma's Robert S. Kerr, Oregon's Wayne Morse, South Carolina's Olin D. Johnston and Strom Thurmond, Virginia's Harry Flood Byrd and A. Willis Robertson, and Wyoming's Joseph C. O'Mahoney. Paired against the bill: North Carolina...
...Salt Lake conference that the Republicans would win all seven governorships, eight new House seats and one Senate seat in 1958. He did not specify how this would be done. Of the eight Senate seats, five are currently held by Republicans and three by popular Democrats, Mansfield of Montana, Chavez of New Mexico, and Jackson of Washington. Thirty of the region's 53 House seats are in California, which has shown marked signs of Democratic growth in the past few years...
...vote?" cried New Mexico's Democratic Senator Dennis Chavez as the U.S. Senate's consideration of the Eisenhower Doctrine dragged into its eighth week. "I am ready to vote...