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The Democratic explosion was awesome. Up jumped Pennsylvania's Congressman John W. Murphy, shouting: "It would ill behoove this committee. ... It would not be showing much courtesy." Illinois' Senator Scott W. Lucas cried: "Fishing expedition . . . ridiculous!"
When genial, chubby-faced Jim Lucas joined the Marines, he left a reporting job on the Tulsa Tribune's courthouse beat, and his Boy Scoutmastering. He became a crack combat correspondent, got out the first story of the landing on Tarawa-and was threatened with court-martial for writing...
Like many another newspaperman derricked out of his old job by the war, Jim Lucas had no desire to go back. He came home a lieutenant, surprised to find a flattering array of jobs thrust at him. He took the best one-roving columnist for the Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance...
The ex-marine's opinions were frontpaged in 18 out of 19 Scripps-Howard papers. When Lucas promptly got 227 letters, all but three damning him, Scripps-Howard was sure that their marine had landed.
In last week's debate, it soon became clear that William Green's A.F. of L. was out hot & heavy to beat the grey-haired, wide-eyed New Dealer. The argument: he was hooked up to C.I.O., hence would be influenced in decisions on wages and labor problems...