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...competition; three of his four opponents-a 44-year-old Navy Commander named Nelson Levings, 55-year-old ex-Supreme Court Clerk Thomas Quitman Ellis and 66-year-old ex-Congressman Ross A. Collins-were campaigning hard. But Bilbo paid no heed. Instead he howled a warning: "The white people of Mississippi are sitting on a volcano. . . . We are faced with a nationwide campaign to integrate the nigger with the social life of this country...
California Democrats had been cautioned by Attorney General Bob Kenny to treat each other with "mutual respect" in the June 4 primaries and save their spleen for Republicans in the fall. But last week both disrespect and discord cropped up. Most of the Democratic regulars were backing ex-Congressman Will Rogers Jr. for Senator. The rugged radicals of the Hollywood Independent Committee for the Arts, Sciences and Professions, of the C.I.O.-P.A.C. and left-of-center A.F.L. unions were spending and electioneering hard for Congressman Ellis Patterson, who has often shown an agile adherence to the Communist line...
...empty committee room, ex-Congressman Fish played one of his old records with a new needle: "New Deal squandermania. . . . We are throwing . . . the Treasury wide open to foreign countries." He suggested that if the $3,750,000,000 must be spent, it be used to buy Britain's islands off North America as a buffer against Soviet aggression...
Will Rogers Jr., 35, set out to add to the U.S. scene a new kind of public character: a U.S. Senator who was also a Hollywood star. Ex-Congressman Rogers (who resigned to join the Army in 1944) prepared to: 1) run for Senator from California; 2) play the title role in a Warner Bros, movie about his late, gum-chewing, rope-twirling father...
...Down. In Washington even the most devout Democrats regretfully observed that after six months in office and two months of peace, Harry Truman was doing little better than muddling through. Bouncy Maury Maverick, the Texas ex-Congressman now in charge of WPB's Smaller War Plants Corp., bought himself a dime-store compass and cracked: "There are so many times when I don't know in which direction I'm going that I have to take it out and look...