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Wallace F. Bennett, 52, wealthy Salt Lake City automobile dealer, bank director and paint manufacturer, who proved that a former president of the National Association of Manufacturers can be elected to public office. He lost only one county - and that by but 29 votes - in toppling liberal Democratic Senator Elbert Thomas. A devout Mormon who likes to sing and write hymns, Bennett won a medal on the University of Utah debating team in 1919, taught school briefly...
Montana's short-tempered James E. Murray will step into the Labor Committee chairmanship vacated by the beaten Elbert Thomas of Utah. Murray may prove almost too strong a right arm. A roaring pro-labor man, several times in the past he has almost come to blows in committee meetings with Robert Taft...
...always sports a deep red carnation in his buttonhole, tucks an expensive handspun, monogrammed linen handkerchief in the pocket beneath it. His silk and poplin shirts are custom-made (by Sulka) with a special high, soft collar. His oversized, flowing bow ties, supposedly copied from those worn by Elbert (Message to Garcia) Hubbard, give him a faintly poetic...
...Maryland, John M. Butler upset Democratic incumbent Millard E. Tydings, chairman of the committee that "white-washed" Senator Joseph McCarthy. The G.O.P. scored another victory in Utah, where Wallace F. Bennett upset Democratic incumbent Elbert D. Thomas...
...Utah, by a 4-to-1 majority, Republicans picked Wallace F. Bennett, a small business (paint & glass) man who once headed the National Association of Manufacturers, to run against the Democrats' scholarly Senator Elbert D. Thomas. Fair Dealer Thomas, who had never paid much attention to his local political fences, seemed to be in real trouble this time, facing his stiffest fight in years...