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...blue Ford and its matching two-ton trailer cruised slowly through Cameron, S.C., past the white frame houses set amid old oaks and magnolias, past the new cotton gin walled with tight-packed bales. From the trailer, a loudspeaker intoned metallically: "Your Congressman, Hugo Sims, will speak to you in an hour from now . . . Congressman Sims brings his office to you to report, to talk over your problems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH CAROLINA: At Home on Wheels | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

Within the hour, a boyish 28-year-old with cropped blondish hair and a ready grin wheeled into the vacant spot near A. O. Rickenbacker's hardware store. He hopped out of the Ford, opened the trailer door, set the coffee pot on the butane stove in the pint-sized kitchen, spread farm literature across his "parlor" table, and rigged a microphone out front. Hugo Sims, youngest man in the U.S. House of Representatives, last week was "at home" to his constituents of Cameron (pop. 624), as he would be in every one of the 150 cities, towns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH CAROLINA: At Home on Wheels | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

Target In a Trailer. Hugo Sims, who is a lawyer, taught-and he learned. "I'm trying," he explained, "to work out a liberal program a Southerner can run on and get elected." To do it he had mortgaged his home in Orangeburg to buy the trailer, had sunk every cent into the campaign. The primaries weren't due until next August, but Sims had no machine and knew he made a barn-sized target as the state's only avowed liberal in Congress. A good many wise birds in South Carolina politics, who quote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH CAROLINA: At Home on Wheels | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

...completed tunnel consists of two tubes, each high enough for a trailer truck and two lanes wide. Pavements are concrete and are flanked on each side by emergency walks...

Author: By John J. Sack, | Title: Snarled New Haven Detour Vanishes As Connecticut Opens Rock Tunnel | 11/2/1949 | See Source »

...Producer Sol Lesser confessed to TIME'S Hollywood correspondent: "That's something we overlooked. Do you think we ought to put out a trailer showing a marriage ceremony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 8, 1949 | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

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