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Dates: during 1940-1949
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In Pennsylvania, voters of the 26th congressional district picked 41-year-old Republican Attorney John P. Saylor, a husky, doorbell-ringing Navy veteran, over the Democrats' inexperienced Mrs. Robert L. Coffey Sr. (TIME, Sept. 12). Campaigning on the congressional and war records of her son, who was killed in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Who Won, Sep. 26, 1949 | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

In Detroit, City Treasurer Albert E. Cobo finished handily ahead of ten other candidates in the city's nonpartisan mayoralty primary, seemed a sure bet for election in November. An ex-salesman for the Burroughs Adding Machine Co., Cobo was called in to straighten out the city's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Who Won, Sep. 26, 1949 | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

Not the least embarrassed by these revelations, Mike set out to demonstrate his zeal for law enforcement, began raiding gambling joints, breaking up slot machines and punchboards. He even raided a law enforcement officers' club called the "Footprinters" and fired one of his deputies, one Ard Pratt (a nephew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OREGON: The Great Misunderstanding | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

Big Mike had no intention of giving up. He got Brownie from the U-Drive to run his campaign against the recall and issued new pronunciamentos. "Why do the politicians want me out of office?" bawled Mike. "Could it be that they are frightened at what I will uncover? Don...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OREGON: The Great Misunderstanding | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

The word was relayed through the drive-ins, malt shops and garages speckling the Los Angeles suburbs. "Tonight, Sepulveda and Hawthorne." By 10 p.m., 100 hopped-up jalopies and denuded, low-slung hot rods had gathered at a mile-and-a-half stretch of straight highway between suburban Torrance and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Gangway! | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

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