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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Goodbye, My Fancy (Warner], a slick adaptation of the 1948 Broadway hit comedy, gives Joan Crawford a chance to preen her plumage and practice her intellect as a glamorous Congresswoman who would sooner compromise a man than an issue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, may 28, 1951 | 5/28/1951 | See Source »

Woman for the Senate. Even in the California Senate race, where 49-year-old Democratic Congresswoman Helen Gahagan Douglas was finding it hard going (see above), Barkley didn't seem very helpful. To Republican charges that she had left a Communist-line voting record in the House, he replied: "I'm not familiar with all of Mrs. Douglas' votes. I'm quite sure [she] voted her conscientious convictions. The mere fact that she voted the same as Marcantonio I don't regard as of any significance." Then, somewhat confusingly, he added: "The Senate could stand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Always Leave 'Em Laughin' | 10/23/1950 | See Source »

...Senate race, handsome Congresswoman Helen Gahagan Douglas, 49, campaigning by helicopter, captured the Democratic nomination as a hot & heavy Fair Dealer. She beat out dapper, conservative Manchester Boddy, publisher of the Los Angeles Daily News. But winning in November would not be so easy. Her Republican opponent will be Congressman Richard Nixon, 37, a member of the House Un-American Activities Committee, and best known for his bloodhound pursuit of Alger Hiss. On the basis of their total primary votes, Congressman Nixon appeared to be a little out ahead of Congresswoman Douglas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: The Warren Touch | 6/19/1950 | See Source »

California's Congresswoman. Helen Gahagan Douglas, candidate for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senator, announced that she would campaign in a helicopter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Speaking Up | 5/8/1950 | See Source »

That seemed to leave the brass ring to his opponent, handsome, spirited Congresswoman Helen Gahagan Douglas (wife of Cinemaqtor Melvyn Douglas), who ten years ago had given up the Broadway stage and the Hollywood screen to turn a purposeful hand to politics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: The Mad Whirl | 4/10/1950 | See Source »

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