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...subscriber and reader of TIME for many years, I could not help but note your article on p. 10 of the issue of July 31, in which you refer to Honorable Dennis Chavez, U. S. Senator from New Mexico, as "New Mexico's other, but unadmired, Senator: tea-colored Dennis Chavez...
...know what sources of information TIME has, nor upon what you base your statement . . . but may I say that Senator Chavez was elected by an overwhelming majority of 25,000 votes both times he ran as a candidate for Member of the House of Representatives...
...most powerful, influential, beloved, and "admired" citizens of the State of New Mexico, and in 1928 Senator Cutting was elected as a Republican U. S. Senator by an overwhelming majority of something around 30,000 votes. In 1934, when TIME Magazine's "unadmired" Senator Chavez ran against Senator Bronson M. Cutting for a seat in the-U. S. Senate, Senator Cutting, according to the official returns, was elected over your "unadmired" Senator Chavez by only 1,284 votes...
...also add that at the last general election in 1936, the people of the State of New Mexico elected Senator Chavez a U. S. Senator by a majority of over...
...would appear, therefore, that, according to the election returns of the last four general elections in the State of New Mexico, Senator Chavez has been other than "unadmired" by the good and kind people of the State of New Mexico...