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Republicans were amused and delighted. In a hammer-&-tongs fight for the Democratic nomination from Washington's First Congressional District (Seattle), left-wing Representative Hugh De Lacey and rabble-rousing, opportunistic Howard Costigan were tearing an old friendship to shreds. When both appealed for help to the heirs of Franklin Roosevelt, even family ties snapped under the strain...
Candidate De Lacey scored first, when Jimmy Roosevelt announced that the Independent Citizens Committee for the Arts, Sciences and Professions was swinging in behind him.* Candidate Costigan immediately dashed off a letter of protest, sent a copy to his good friend Anna Roosevelt Boettiger (who has lived in Seattle off-&-on since 1936, when her husband John began an eight-and-a-half-year term as publisher of Hearst's Post-Intelligencer). Costigan roundly denounced De Lacey as a faithful Communist-line follower who "values the welfare of one nation-other than the United States-above all others...
...fight it. Within a few months she bought the interest of Denver Capitalist Horace Bennett and gained control of $10,000,000 R. M. F. Then to Josephine Roche's office was summoned Rocky Mountain Fuel's general counsel, the late progressive U. S. Senator Edward Prentiss Costigan. To Senator Costigan went leaders of Colorado's struggling mine unions. Late in the summer of 1928 they signed a famed document: the first mine union contract in Colorado's history. Its far-seeing purpose: "To establish industrial justice, substitute reason for violence, integrity and good faith...
Died. Edward Prentiss Costigan, 64, liberal Democrat, onetime (1930-36) U. S. Senator from Colorado; of a heart attack induced by lobar pneumonia; in Denver...
...Item No. 1 on the N. A. A. C. P. schedule. The White argument, ceaselessly drummed into Negroes and white legislators alike, was that while talk is long, the rope is short ?that in the 13 years between the Dyer filibuster and the filibuster that wrecked the Wagner-Costigan bill, mobs had lynched with practical impunity more than 290 U. S. Negroes...