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...years the club was a front-runner in the fight for repeal of the Chinese Exclusion laws. When an act of repeal was finally voted by Congress, it bore the name of the club's longtime ally in the capital, Democratic Senator Warren Magnuson. To the victory celebration in Seattle's Chinese community, Chiang Kai-shek sent another message: "All Chinese deeply appreciate your removing us from the stigma of exclusion ... It is worth 20 divisions to me in morale...
...STORY ABOUT ME IN TIME, FEB. 6, IS ENTIRELY UNTRUE. AN APPROXIMATION OF THE INCIDENT REFERRED TO OCCURRED FIVE YEARS AGO. I NEVER HAVE STATED THAT SENATOR MAGNUSON WAS UNBEATABLE. GOVERNOR LANGLIE IF HE CHOOSES TO RUN CAN BEAT MAGNUSON EASILY AND SO CAN A NUMBER OF OTHERS...
Senator Warren Magnuson is a supremely confident man. Recently the Republican National Committee sent Victor Johnston, one of its ablest legmen, on a scouting expedition to Seattle to look into the chances of unseating Magnuson this year. Johnston came back to the capital with the depressing report that Magnuson seemed to be unbeatable. Soon afterward he ran into Magnuson, who greeted him warmly and said that he had heard that Vic had just been to Seattle...
...didn't you let me know?" demanded Magnuson in an aggrieved voice. "I've got an apartment at the Olympic Hotel, and you could have used...
Johnston said that the Senator probably had not been informed of the purpose of his visit. "Hell," replied Magnuson, "I know what you were doing. That doesn't make any difference at all. Next time you go out there to see how you can lick me, just let me know, and I'll give you the key to my apartment. I got a car, too, and you can use that. Help you get around the state, seeing Republicans. I really mean it." He really...