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After the vote, brush-mustached David Chavez Jr., who left a $15,000 federal judgeship to go after the Democratic nomination for governor, sat in a Santa Fe friend's house wondering what to do next. Also wondering were at least 13 other Spanish-Americans who ran against "Anglo" candidates and lost. For the first time in years, New Mexico's Democratic ticket would be virtually Anglo. Heading the list: for governor, a run-of-the-platform politician named John E. Miles...
...Congressman in 19 years and the fourth in its history. In a special election in the Panhandle, likable Ben Guill, 40, of Pampa, onetime lieutenant in the Navy, won over ten Democrats seeking the seat of Representative Eugene Worley, 41, also a Navy veteran, who resigned to take a judgeship. Guill got only 8,000 of the 35,000 votes cast, but the rest were shredded among his Democratic opponents. "I'm no intellectual giant and I don't have any ideas about going to the capital and changing up the Government," said ex-School-teacher Guill...
...race, the conservative, Republican-tinged Denver Post reported last week (and if the results of a statewide poll held true), 65% of Colorado's voters would vote for a change; only 27% wanted to keep Gene Millikin on. Even if Knous could be sidetracked with a federal judgeship, the Democrats had another odds-on favorite: Denver's Congressman John Albert Carroll, a husky, 48-year-old ex-policeman who walks a straight Fair Deal line. He led Millikin by a decisive margin in an earlier poll...
Died. James Francis Thaddeus ("Jefty") O'Connor, 63, onetime U.S. Comptroller of the Currency (1933-38); of a heart ailment; in Los Angeles. A loyal pre-convention (1932) Roosevelt supporter, O'Connor was eventually rewarded with a federal judgeship after his defeat in the California gubernatorial primary...
...Senator who did not have federal projects in mind-rivers, harbors, post offices, federal buildings-which needed the approval of vitriolic old Kenneth McKellar, a man who never forgives and never forgets. There was hardly a Senator who was not also thinking about some patronage jobs-a federal judgeship, a spot as U.S. attorney-or some legal claim in his own state. All such matters have to be approved by Pat McCarran's Judiciary Committee. And McCarran was also McKellar's right bower on the Appropriations Committee...