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Evasive though it was on many subjects, Luchese's testimony nonetheless produced some surprising revelations. By his own statement, his acquaintances, social or otherwise, included Mayor Vincent Impellitteri, the late Mayor Fiorello La Guardia ("I used to talk with him like I was his son"), ex-Congressman Vito Marcantonio (who appointed Luchese's son to West Point), Myles J. Lane, the U.S. district attorney, Federal Judge Thomas Meaney, and Federal Judge Thomas Murphy, the man who prosecuted Alger Hiss. Also brought out during the reading of Luchese's testimony...
...Democrat won the State Auditorship, but the outcome of the State Treasurer race still as in doubt late this morning. Ex-congressman Foster Furcolo, who took an early lead, found himself slipping behind Roy Papalia, Republican candidate...
...could. The retired Millsboro politician, an ex-Congressman named George Williams (no kin), looked over the field and found Republican candidates scarce because everybody thought the Democrats would win in Delaware...
...Truman as his main target and asked Texans to give him "an uninstructed, unpledged and undaunted" delegation to the Democratic convention. At the Democratic state convention in San Antonio, Shivers got his kind of delegation. But he also got some trouble. A group of "loyal" Democrats, led by scowling ex-Congressman Maury Maverick, bolted and named their own delegates to the national convention...
Speaking at the University of Denver, Ex-Congressman Robert Ramspeck of Georgia, now chairman of the U.S. Civil Service Commission, had a suggestion pointing in the opposite direction: elect two Congressmen from each district-one to legislate and the other to pork-barrel for the folks back home...