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Initial checks for the same amount have been mailed to the headquarters of Representatives John Carroll of Colorade and Helon Gahagan Douglas of California, who are running for the Senate...
...lost an off-year election in the state since 1934. In California, Representative Richard Nixon, the man who did most (in the House Un-American Activities Committee) to drag the Alger Hiss case into the open, was conceded a big lead toward the Senate over Fair Dealing Representative Helen Gahagan Douglas...
Woman for the Senate. Even in the California Senate race, where 49-year-old Democratic Congresswoman Helen Gahagan Douglas was finding it hard going (see above), Barkley didn't seem very helpful. To Republican charges that she had left a Communist-line voting record in the House, he replied: "I'm not familiar with all of Mrs. Douglas' votes. I'm quite sure [she] voted her conscientious convictions. The mere fact that she voted the same as Marcantonio I don't regard as of any significance." Then, somewhat confusingly, he added: "The Senate could stand...
...thing, she could not go to California without also giving a cheer for her longtime friend, Democratic Senatorial Candidate Helen Gahagan Douglas. And Candidate Helen was not seeing eye to eye with Candidate Jimmy at all. Her backers, in fact, were complaining that Jimmy was not only failing to help her, but failing to help himself. Many another Democrat was sore because Jimmy was giving talks on public utilities and happiness instead of trying to paint Governor Warren as a drooling Republican fiend...
...Senate race, handsome Congresswoman Helen Gahagan Douglas, 49, campaigning by helicopter, captured the Democratic nomination as a hot & heavy Fair Dealer. She beat out dapper, conservative Manchester Boddy, publisher of the Los Angeles Daily News. But winning in November would not be so easy. Her Republican opponent will be Congressman Richard Nixon, 37, a member of the House Un-American Activities Committee, and best known for his bloodhound pursuit of Alger Hiss. On the basis of their total primary votes, Congressman Nixon appeared to be a little out ahead of Congresswoman Douglas...