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...George P. Mahoney, twice defeated, once for the Senate and once for governor, never stopped running after election day 1952, has shaken every hand he can find from Buffalo Run to Pocomoke City. A third candidate, Thomas D'Alesandro, Democratic National Committeeman and mayor of Baltimore, announced his candidacy for governor last August, but slipped behind when his son was implicated in a teen-age vice scandal. Last week D'Alesandro withdrew from the race...
...served in the Plan E Council since 1946 and previously in the Plan D Council. Also, he has been a state legislator and a Cambridge school committeeman...
...Administration's much disliked agricultural policies, and joined the strong anti-Shivers tide in the traditionally orthodox urban centers. The leader of the main-trunk Democrats continues to be ex-Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn, long a major power in Texas politics. When the state lost its National Committeeman because of the intra-mural feud, Rayburn represented Texas to the Committee. Representing the National Committee in the state is young D. B. Hardeman, who along with Maury Maverick, Jr. and Jim Sewall forms the nucleus of a group of liberal young Democrats, who, according to seasoned political observers...
...friend and crafty political lieutenant of New York's Governor Thomas E. Dewey. Last week Sprague, under fire for his ownership of $500.000 worth of stock (which cost him, in effect, $24,000) in the scandal-ridden Yonkers Raceway, resigned as New York's Republican national committeeman...
...breezing into Nassau County offices, usually by more than 2-1. This year scandal swept across the county from the Roosevelt (trotting horse) Raceway, where labor racketeers had been shaking down the employees and some owners of stock had made fabulous profits. The county's Mr. Republican, National Committeeman J. Russel Sprague, turned out to be one of the stockholders of the scandal-ridden Yonkers Raceway, in nearby Westchester County...