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...make him sensitive to the merchant marine, he sponsored the bill providing that 50% of postwar EGA foreign aid be carried abroad in U.S. ships. He has worked ably to improve air service to the Northwest, business opportunities for Washington pulp mills, the catch for the salmon fishermen. Warren Magnuson's name is on no momentous legislation of the last twelve years, but this omission does not bother him. As Maggie sees it, one of his values is this: "The State of Washington would have to wait about twelve years to get themselves in the same position of seniority...
Back home, regardless of party, many Washingtonians feel the same way. Magnuson has friends and supporters not only in nominally Democratic circles, e.g., in the labor movement, but in nominally Republican circles as well. To a reception recently at Seattle's exclusive Rainier Club came 125 Seattle businessmen to thank him for work well done and wish him well in the future...
...expected its Congressmen and Senators to bring home the bacon, it is hard to talk against the joys of federal aid. Art Langlie realized the difficulty in February 1955 when, invited to the White House, he was urged by Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams to run for the Senate against Magnuson. He returned home to consider, eventually wrote out an involved "I will not run" statement. Asked Evelyn Langlie, when he read it to her: "Why don't you just say you're quitting...
...Ground Gainer. Senator Magnuson has already made 300 speeches in 3½ months, and he takes off across the state this week in a campaign bus all rigged with amplifiers, microphones, record turntable, stacks of literature, and a galley to provide coffee and doughnuts for the voters. Maggie sums it all up this way: "This campaign is basic. Have I done a good job for the state? And if not, can anyone do better?" To this, Art Langlie, the Eisenhower Republican replies: "The people are entitled to make a decision and determine whether they want the facts honestly...
Although polls indicate that Langlie faces an uphill fight to win, they also show him gaining ground on Maggie. Said a Magnuson supporter: "If I had to bet $100 on Maggie, I'd go right out and hedge it with $50 on Langlie." Ultimately, the traditional tendency of Washington voters (who give the Democrats a nominal 11% edge) is to ignore party labels for a particular man or issue. Until they pass the fork in the 1956 road and make the big choice, the race will be in doubt for everybody...