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...elected over Republican State Senator Howard Shults, 39,676 votes to 39,647-a majority of exactly 29. Current breakdown of the new House: Republicans, 221; Democrats, 212; Independent, 1; one seat vacant (since the death, two days after Election Day, of Illinois' Democrat Adolph J. Sabath-TIME...
...will of the late Adolph J. Sabath, Democratic Representative from Illinois, who died at the age of 86 two days after being elected to his 24th consecutive term in the House, was filed for probate in Chicago. Sabath, who arrived in Baltimore in 1881 as an immigrant from Czechoslovakia with $2 in his pocket, left an estate valued...
Illinois' aged (85) Congressman Adolph Sabath emerged from the President's office and gave waiting correspondents the latest teasing hint from Harry Truman. According to the Congressman, the President said: "I have had seven years of it, and it's been a trying job ... I would prefer to lay aside the burdens and responsibilities . . . The only thing that can make me run is if I feel it is in the interest of my country and the peace of the world...
...Confederate officer, Doughton was raised in Alleghany County on the edge of the Appalachians. He first went to Congress in 1911 and has served continuously ever since, longer than anyone in the House except Illinois' Adolph Sabath, 85, who began in 1907. Doughton became chairman of the Ways & Means Committee in 1933, and except for the Republican years of 1947-48, has ruled it ever since. He loyally supported the pump-priming experiments of the New Deal, helped pioneer the nation's first social security law, and backed the first reciprocal trade agreements. His basic philosophy on taxes...
...bill calling for a complete congressional investigation of sports, college and professional, has been temporarily withdrawn from the House Rules Committee. Representative Adolf Sabath (D-III.) delayed the vote after one member stated that the job was meant for local action and another member asserted that his constituents weren't interested...