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Emma Tenayuca, dark-eyed little Red of San Antonio, Texas (TIME, Feb. 28), was nominated to run for Congress on the Communist ticket. Her opponent: Paul Kilday, who last month defeated the incumbent, rip-snorting Maury Maverick, for renomination. Nominee Kilday's brother is San Antonio's Chief of Police Owen P. Kilday, Emma Tenayuca's bitter enemy and twice her host when she was jailed for civil commotions...
...support a similar resolution now." ¶ Cartoonist Norman (William Norman Ritchie) of the Boston Post, more blunt, drew a chortling Franklin Roosevelt unctuously declining a third-term cup of cocoa in the New Deal cafe (see cut). ¶ Recovering with a bounce from his primary defeat, Representative Maury Maverick of Texas wrote a piece for the Philadelphia Record. Excerpt: "Calling all progressives! Calling all liberals! Stop your telegrams telling me how sad it was that I got beat. . . . The job we have ahead of us now is not to let any more get beat. Let me be a lesson...
Equally arresting news from Texas' primary was evidence that Franklin Roosevelt sometimes can neither turn his incumbent foes out of office, nor keep his incumbent friends in. Last fortnight the touring President called Representatives Maury Maverick of San Antonio, William Doddridge McFarlane of the 13th District, and House Agriculture Committee Chairman Marvin Jones "my good friends." Of this blessed trio, only Mr. Jones survived...
...sycophant either to Franklin Roosevelt or C.I.O., Maury Maverick in two terms placed himself well to the left of the President, got into A.F. of L.'s bad graces by espousing much liberal legislation approved by C.I.O. At home, he rashly antagonized Mayor Charles Kennon Quin's San Antonio machine and the potent Irish-Catholic vote. Last week Attorney Paul Joseph Kilday-an Irishman, Roman Catholic and Quin machinist-beat Maury Maverick by 546 votes in 49,312 votes cast. Said Maury Maverick: "Lincoln got beat four times. I guess I can take it once...
...Boarding the President's train like scores of other Congressmen, Representative Maury Maverick of San Antonio, unlike scores of other Congressmen, frankly gave his reason for doing so: "I like the President, and he likes me, and I want something." What Mr. Maverick wanted : help against hot-tongued Paul J. Kilday, close at his heels for the 20th District House nomination...