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...Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn, long a major power in Texas politics. When the state lost its National Committeeman because of the intra-mural feud, Rayburn represented Texas to the Committee. Representing the National Committee in the state is young D. B. Hardeman, who along with Maury Maverick, Jr. and Jim Sewall forms the nucleus of a group of liberal young Democrats, who, according to seasoned political observers, are the rising powers in the state. New Dealer Maury Maverick, Sr, continues to exert considerable influence in San Antonio and thereabouts...
Ohio's governor is as politically unruly as his heavy mane of tousled hair. Ever since he was elected Cleveland's mayor in 1941, Maverick Lausche has spurned "machine" support, winning elections despite organized Democratic opposition. He has heaped such florid oratorical praise on some G.O.P. leaders that they find it awkward later to criticize him in normal partisan fashion. In the 1950 senatorial campaign, Lausche said he "might" vote for Bob Taft instead of the Democratic candidate. By last year the governor had won such popularity as a conservative Democrat that, in defeating Charles P. Taft...
After Oregon's Wayne Morse bolted the Republican Party, the Democratic liberals besought Johnson to throw Democratic weight behind Morse's demand for seats on important committees. Johnson decided that the Oregon maverick was a Republican problem and the Democrats should not take him over. When one Midwestern Democrat reported a Morse threat to campaign against him if the Democrats didn't come through, Johnson snapped: "You aren't trying to argue that we should give in to political blackmail...
...Finally rejected, 56-19, the effort of Oregon Maverick Wayne Morse to regain his seats on the Labor and Armed Services Committees. Then, by voice vote, relegated Morse to the Senatorial Limbo-the District of Columbia and Public Works Committees...
...upwards of 100,000 words on subjects ranging from offshore oil (the matter under debate) to horseback riding, to baloney (the edible kind). When his self-imposed ordeal was over, the pink rose in the lapel of Morse's dark blue suit was withered, but 52-year-old Maverick Morse himself was still sprightly enough to chat with reporters and pose smilingly for photographers before going to his office for a three-hour...