Word: suttons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ever since the collapse of Estes Kefauver's 1952 bid for the presidential nomination, some political dopesters have been predicting that he might lose his seat in the Senate. Such predictions neatly fitted the plans of third-term Tennessee Congressman Pat Sutton of Lawrenceburg (pop. 5,500), who this year entered the lists against Kefauver in the Democratic primary...
...concert. There was a clear moon overhead as Oldtimer Eddie Condon, a little ill at ease in all the fresh air, stamped his foot four times and swung into Muskrat Ramble, sweeping along his bang-up Dixieland outfit, including Clarinetist Pee Wee Russell, Trumpeter Wild Bill Davison, Pianist Ralph Sutton. The music was hot, and the crowd warmed to it with shouts...
...Navy veteran with six years in Congress, Pat Sutton, 38, was not well-known outside his own Sixth District (west central Tennessee) a month ago, and politicians gave him little chance against Kefauver. But in recent weeks he has pushed his way into Tennessee living rooms with the persistent zeal of a brush salesman. His technique is the marathon radio and television appearance, in which he sits before microphone and camera hour after hour answering questions submitted by listeners. His latest endurance broadcast began in Memphis at 7:30 p.m. one day last week, and ended 27 hours later...
...When Sutton talks about Kefauver, which is most of the time, he talks tough. Some of his charges are extravagant, but they are hard on Estes. He accuses Kefauver of being "leftish," and a one-worlder. Sutton has also made race an issue by quoting from a Negro newspaper that reported Kefauver as saying during his futile 1952 presidential bid that there would be no segregation if he were elected. Says Sutton: "We don't know if that's still the way he feels. He hasn't said. He was running for President then...
...Army-McCarthy hearings, could whip Estes Kefauver. At week's end Jenkins settled that question by announcing he would not run. Kefauver's friends, who had not been worried much about Jenkins (or any other Republican), were not necessarily cheered. They were seriously concerned about Pat Sutton and the Democratic primary, and were advising Estes: stay home and start fighting...