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...Maury Maverick, 55, who served two loud terms in the House of Representatives (1935-39), announced that he will be a candidate. In the early years of the New Deal, Maverick led its most militant wing. He introduced Franklin Roosevelt's Supreme-Court-packing plan. He once proposed that cocktail parties be abolished because "they give the timid talker too much false courage ... a large talker too big an opportunity ... an average man a cross between an earache and a stomach-ache." Last week he started off calmly: "I think the time has come in the U.S. for people...
Already campaigning is Martin Dies, 49, who roared across the land as chairman (1938-44) of a House committee investigating un-American activities. Said he: "Maverick fought my committee and is on record against the things I stand for. A race with Maverick would give us a referendum between the socialistic concept of government and the fundamental American beliefs I hold...
After a skittish mare kicked Oregon's Republican Maverick Wayne Morse smack in the mouth at the Orkney Springs, Va. horse show, Washington reporters called at the Naval Hospital in Bethesda, Md. to see how the Senator was feeling, got their answer in a written note: "I have learned to roll with political kicks and punches, but I haven't learned how to absorb the kick of a horse...
Just when cooler heads in the Administration had about decided to forget the whole thing, up jumped Connecticut's Democratic Brien McMahon last week to wave excitedly at an old dragon. Joined by Oregon's Republican maverick, Wayne Morse, McMahon presented a resolution: the Foreign Relations Committee should spend $50,000 to find out whether any attempt had been made by any group representing Nationalist China to influence U.S. foreign policy since Pearl Harbor...
...kept running for various offices until he was nearly 65, he never got elected to any. When there were six leading candidates for five offices, Charley Thurber would invariably finish sixth. Too honest to play ball with a political machine, and too amiable and gentle to be a winning maverick, he was a chronic also...