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...first half, the Dodgers surprised an apathetic crowd by holding the favored Yankees, last year's Eastern Division champs, and led 3-0 at half time. But in the Dodger locker room, Guard Tex Warrington passed out cold from the heat, Mickey Colmer fell on his face, and Hunchy Hoernschemeyer had to take smelling salts to get back on the field...
...real senatorial race was between Rankin's fellow Congressman, William Meyers Colmer, 57, and Circuit Court Judge John Cornelius Stennis, 46. Colmer and Stennis were both waging well-organized, serious campaigns. Significantly, neither was making an issue of white supremacy; they went on record as favoring "the Southern way of life," and let it go at that. Running neck & neck, both were pulling bigger crowds than Rankin...
...Representative William M. Colmer and his traveling Congressional Committee aggravated the suspicion by recommending a reconstructed Germany that could be "a factor in America's world trade...
...Said Mississippi's drawling, red-haired William M. Colmer: "The sad and sorry spectacle of the House. . . bringing up an issue calculated more than anything else to bring about disunity. I know that you have gotten your orders from John L. Lewis, from Earl Browder, from the Association for the Advancement of Colored People . . . and from the First Lady of the Land...
What made Mr. Colmer so sure that the bill would pass was that: 1) 1940 is election year, and 2) Negroes in the north and west can vote. The lone Negro in Congress, white-topped Democrat Arthur Mitchell of Chicago, won no friends for the bill. He taunted Republicans with ganging up to "buy" Negro votes, made some almost angry enough to vote against the bill. A Republican who did vote "No" was upstate New York's Wadsworth, one of two ex-Senators who have come down to the House (the other: borderline Ken tucky's solemn, long...