Word: lawyers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Results in key battles: CONNECTICUT. In normally Republican Connecticut, long-jawed Chester Bowles, former OPAdministrator, who had campaigned hard at picnics and ball games for "voluntary" price control and more state aid for housiag, upset all predictions by edging out Republican incumbent James C. Shannon, a Bridgeport lawyer. Said surprised New Dealer Bowles: "The Roosevelt spirit has proved itself to be very much alive today...
ILLINOIS. Adlai Stevenson, 48, quietly able socialite lawyer, former United Nations delegate, grandson and namesake of Cleveland's Vice President, dethroned the Republicans' two-term Governor Dwight Green, whose administration he had assailed as rotten with graft and corruption...
MASSACHUSETTS. Paul Andrew Dever, 45, round-faced lawyer and Navy veteran, rode the Democratic tide to wash out the second-term bid of Republican Robert F. Bradford, of Boston's sedate Beacon Street...
...such a bird ever get in FTC's nest? As Mason tells it, that is quite a story. The son of Illinois ex-Senator William E. Mason, he went to Washington in 1934 as a lawyer with NRA. When that job folded, he was so broke that for a time he lived on Fig Newtons. Then his good friend Billy Richardson, part owner of the Washington Senators, gave him a free box alongside the dugout at the ball park...
Mason liked to ask in less favored guests from poorer seats, men like Harry Truman (then a Senator), Bob Taft and Arthur Vandenberg. Soon Mason's box was their favorite hangout. Lawyer Mason's business grew with his friendships. Many clients hired him to defend them before FTC. His income rose to $37,000 before he gave it up for his $10,000 job (as a Republican member of FTC) when good friend Harry Truman offered...