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...Negro and a Negro should stay on the plantation." Powell called New Yorker De Sapio "a Mississippi boss" and "a liar," spun off insults at Republicans and Democrats alike, announced that he would run for an eighth term as an independent Democrat. ¶ Conservative Republican Frederic R. Coudert Jr., 60, whose vote-pulling power in Manhattan's East Side silk-stocking 17th Congressional District was badly snagged the last two times out by big Democratic protest votes and near defeat, announced that he would not run for a seventh term. Coudert's withdrawal signaled a bloody primary...
With the exception of Dewey Short, few familiar faces will be missing from the next Congress. Republican Katharine St. George easily staved off the challenge of World War II Cartoonist William ("Willie and Joe") Mauldin in New York's 28th District, and Incumbent Frederic Coudert Jr. surmounted a dangerous bid by Democrat Anthony Akers, World War II PT-boat skipper. It was a bad year for basketball players too. In Kentucky, Wallace ("Wah Wah" Jones, one of the two "clean" players on the bribe-prone 1948-49 Kentucky basketball team, was smothered by Democratic Incumbent John Watts, and Minnesota...
...onetime Princeton football center, is Dallas County District Attorney Henry M. (for Menasco) Wade, 41, who enlisted in the Navy as an apprentice seaman, rose to lieutenant j.g., served two years in the Pacific aboard the carrier Hornet. After one defeat (by 314 votes in 1954) by Republican Frederic Coudert Jr., 58, in Manhattan's17th District, Democrat Anthony Akers, 41, is counting on help from a fellow PT-boat skipper in the Pacific: Massachusetts' Senator John Kennedy...
...aggression in Indo-China." Said Ohio's John Vorys, the House's Republican foreign-policy leader: "Telegraphing your punch is bad, but telegraphing your enemy that you are not going to punch is worse ... I suggest that in this matter, instead of relying upon 'General' Coudert . . . this would be the time when it would be wise to rely upon General Eisenhower...
...vote of 214 to 37, the Coudert rider died. After that, the House appropriated $28.7 billion for the Defense Department...