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...days later, the Senate Commerce Committee turned thumbs down on the President's nomination of Raymond S. McKeough. onetime New Dealing Congressman and defeated Senate candidate (1942) of Illinois' Kelly-Nash machine, to be a member of the U.S. Maritime Commission. If the Senate followed through, it would be the first rejection of a Truman appointee...
...Illinois Senate race, Representative Raymond S. McKeough, candidate of the Kelly-Nash machine, has little present hope of catching the Chicago Tribune's candidate, Republican incumbent Senator C. Wayland ("Curly") Brooks. In Colorado, incumbent Democratic Senator Edwin C. Johnson might lose to Governor Ralph L. Carr...
...News "sniped away at the Tribune while the really big game -the Senate seat -slipped through?" What do you mean by "slipped through?" The Sun gave exactly the same reasons as TIME for not electing Brooks. It went further and endorsed a proRoosevelt-foreign-policy man, Raymond McKeough, who for some reason you hesitate either to approve or to give basis for disapproving. If you would spend more time trying to be specific and less trying to turn a good phrase, such lameness and ambiguity would not occur...
...Illinoisans Miller, Ettinger and others are satisfied with Kelly-Nash's Raymond McKeough and Colonel McCormick's Curly Brooks, that is as it should be. If the majority of Illinois' 7,897,000 citizens do not really admire such candidates, yet were not roused to prevent their nominations, that is as it should...
...usual, the Democrats had done little better: the. Chicago Times had popped valiantly away for big, New-Dealish Economist Paul H. Douglas; but no one had had much to say either for or against the Kelly-Nash candidate, Democratic Congressman Raymond S. McKeough...