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...Senators. Bickering was fiercest over a $10 million appropriation to build the Senate a new office building with auditorium, movie projection rooms, swimming pool and garage. Roared Louisiana's Allen J. ("Little Bull") Ellender: "I say we ought to examine our consciences." New Mexico's Dennis Chavez argued plaintively that Senators' offices are overcrowded (they are), that they have no place to receive visitors. Cried Chavez: "Oh, we can vote billions of dollars without batting an eye. We can appropriate automobiles for third-class clerks in a department. But when it comes to doing something...
After the vote, brush-mustached David Chavez Jr., who left a $15,000 federal judgeship to go after the Democratic nomination for governor, sat in a Santa Fe friend's house wondering what to do next. Also wondering were at least 13 other Spanish-Americans who ran against "Anglo" candidates and lost. For the first time in years, New Mexico's Democratic ticket would be virtually Anglo. Heading the list: for governor, a run-of-the-platform politician named John E. Miles...
...Chavez brothers-Candidate David and U.S. Senator Dennis-this meant the failure of an elaborate hope for a Chavez dynasty in New Mexico. For the Democratic Party, without its customary portion of vote-getting Spanish names, it meant that "native" voters might drift back to the Republican Party (where they had been before they became what one politician calls WPA Democrats). If enough switch over, they might hand the governorship to the Republicans in November. "It could be," admitted one worried Anglo Democrat, "that they'll give us the old adios this year...
...cloak, said Dennis Chavez, is Senator Joe McCarthy's key witness, ex-Communist editor-turned-convert, Louis Francis Budenz, "who has now been elevated to the unique position of America's No. 1 professional witness in all matters concerning loyalty, patriotism and political reliability." Actually, said Chavez cuttingly, Budenz had led a life of "bawdy personal excesses," had three children by his present wife before marrying her in 1945, and had been arrested 21 times "before he joined the Communists in 1935 at the tender...
...McCarthy was not on the Senate floor when Chavez spoke, but, never at a loss for words, he soon answered: "Poor Dennis Chavez" was a "dupe" in an Administration plot. An angrier retort came from the Very Rev. Laurence J. McGinley, S.J., president of Fordham University, where Budenz teaches economics. Senator Chavez, said Father McGinley, had been guilty of slander, hypocrisy, cowardliness and "personal vilification . . . even lower than that reached in the columns of the Daily Worker." Budenz had Fordham's "full confidence . . . The Senator had the effrontery, moreover, to pose as a Catholic while publicly enacting this vicious...