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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Public Career. Solid (6 ft. 2 in., 185 Ibs.), curly-haired Clint Anderson took early to Democratic politics. He handled several Depression-era state and federal jobs, dealing mostly with unemployment and relief in New Mexico, in 1940 was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives for the first of three terms. He made a House name for himself in hard-digging committee investigations, e.g., of Race-Baiter Gerald L. K. Smith, of food-rationing abuses during World War II. In 1945 President Harry Truman, a poker companion of Anderson's, named him Secretary of Agriculture, succeeding Henry...
...reason for the pattern into which California presidential campaigning has fallen is the omnipresence of the state's own Democratic Governor Edmund G. ("Pat") Brown. Already announced as a favorite son. Pat Brown, after a remarkably successful first year as Governor, is beginning to get serious notions about the 'White House. He is therefore extremely careful never to let the state's aspiring visitors get far out of his sight. As with Kennedy and Humphrey. Stu Symington's speaking dates and travel schedules were set up by the Brown-dominated Democratic State Central Committee...
Respectful Hearing. Beginning his tour in San Francisco. Symington was taken tightly in tow by Roger Kent. Northern California chairman of the State Central Committee and a devoted Brown follower. After speaking at a Fairmont Hotel luncheon-an affair arranged and run by Brown followers-Symington whisked off to Sacramento to spend a night with Brown himself. Next morning he sat with Brown (as had Kennedy) at a press conference, traded amiable tributes. Asked how he would regard Pat Brown as a running mate on the national Democratic ticket, Symington replied: "Well. I think so highly of Governor Brown that...
From Albany west to Corning, thence on to Niagara Falls, then the length of the state to Manhattan-630 airway miles in all-whizzed New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller last week, shaking hands, slapping backs, issuing a tireless stream of enthusiastic comment: "Great . . . Isn't this fun . . . Wonderfully exciting ..." Cried he, spotting a three-year-old girl at Niagara Falls: "Hi, sweetie pie. I wish I had your freckles." Promised he, speaking at a Republican State Committee dinner in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria hotel: the same zestful formula that got him elected Governor last fall "will...
...University of Oregon, was Neuberger's only defender when Student Neuberger was accused of violating the honor system during an examination. In 1954 Morse delivered more than 300 campaign speeches on behalf of his old pupil. In 1956 Neuberger returned the favor, stumped the state in support of Morse. That year, led by Morse and Neuberger, Oregon Democrats elected their first Governor since 1934, took over the state house of representatives for the first time since...