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...Tutt. Last week, Tarheel voters gave the Democratic senatorial nomination, and thus the election, to Clyde Roark Hoey (pronounced hooey), 66, a Southern gentleman with flowing locks and black claw-hammer coat, who looks like Arthur Train's lawyer, Mr. Tutt...
...Clyde Hoey is lukewarm to the New Deal, but Southern-hot for internationalism. An ex-Governor of North Carolina, Hoey is a brother-in-law of O. Max Gardner, another ex-Governor, now a lawyer-lobbyist, whose political machine is known as the "Gardner Dynasty." Hoey and the Gardner Dynasty had an easy time beating out still another ex-Governor, the famed "Cam" Morrison, 74, who held the Senate seat before Bob Reynolds beat him in 1932 by telling North Carolinians in horror that "Cam" actually ate caviar, "fish aigs that come from Red Rooshia...
...rose Kansas' florid-faced Senator Clyde Reed, 72, ranking Republican on the Post Office Committee, to demand how it was that private letters were read on the floor of Congress. He referred to the violet-scented correspondence between greying, blue-eyed Vivien Kellems, the Connecticut manufacturess of cable grips, and Count Frederick von Zedlitz, a Nazi engineer in Argentina. The letters had been read into the Congressional Record fortnight ago by Washington's New Dealing John M. Coffee (TIME, April...
...Clyde Reed well knew, as did all Washington, how the personal letters had become public. As a regular part of its work, the Office of Censorship excerpts such portions of foreign letters as it thinks "valuable in fighting the enemy." Such excerpts, supposedly highly confidential, are sent to other Government agencies. Plainly, someone in the Office of Censorship had slipped the juicier portions of the Kellems-von Zedlitz correspondence to Columnist Drew Pearson and Representative Coffee. Clyde Reed called for a full-dress Senate investigation. Not too gallantly, he added: "The letters may have been mushy, but they weren...
...week's end, fair-minded Censor Byron Price seconded Clyde Reed. Said he: "It is more important to me than to any Senate committee to find out who was faithless enough to violate these confidences...