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...shopping for investigators, ex-G-Men preferred. But Speaker Bankhead struck one last minute blow for the Leftists. To a vacancy on the Dies Committee he appointed California's earnest young Representative Jerry Voorhis, good friend of Red Rover Amlie and, since the departure of Texas' Maury Maverick,* leader of the Young Turks in the House. Son of a millionaire, Jerry Voorhis turned down a fat sum his father offered to set him up in business. Instead, after getting his $BK at Yale, he worked as a cowboy in Wyoming, later in an automobile assembly plant, became...
...Antonio's Maverick, knocked out of Congress by Paul Kilday, is currently engaged in trying to wrest the city's mayoralty from Kil-day's friend, Charles K. Quin...
...those proud, unpredictable gestures that sent Hugo Black up to the Supreme Court, to the consternation of the country, and the amazed disbelief of his colleagues: If the President should be in that kind of mood again, anyone from Mayor La Guardia to Governor Phil La Follette or Maury Maverick of Texas might find themselves reading minority opinions one of these days...
...When New Dealer Maury Maverick was defeated for renomination in San Antonio, Tex. last July, the New Deal's local fences obviously needed mending. Last week Oscar Morgan Powell, 39. regional U. S. Social Security director, popular San Antonio lawyer, was called to Washington to succeed Frank Bane, resigning as Executive Director (No. 2 man) of the Social Security Board. Effective date: November 1. Almost simultaneously a special representative of the U. S. Attorney General, accompanied by two agents of the FBI, arrived in town to look into the primary in which Assistant District Attorney Paul Joseph Kilday beat...
...Idaho's Senator Pope (New Dealer), beaten for renomination by Representative D. Worth Clark and a last-minute blizzard of religious pamphlets, appeared in Hyde Park last week seeking Administration backing to run as an independent in November. Seeking the same thing: Representative-reject Maury Maverick of San Antonio, Texas...