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...Married. William David ("Earnest Willie") Upshaw, 80, former Georgia Congressman (1919-27), 1932 presidential candidate of the Prohibition Party ("I got drunk when I was 16 . . . have been ashamed ever since") ; and Mrs. Lily Galloway, 60, California temperance leader; both for the second time; in Columbus, Ga. Cried ecstatic Mrs. Galloway: "Brother Willie's life is more like the Sermon on the Mount . . . than any other man I've known." Chuckled the groom: "I'm blending romance with religion...
...become a member of the Bank's board, the President named plain, ambitious Lynn Upshaw Stambaugh, onetime national commander of the American Legion. Since his defeat in a three-cornered race for U.S. Senator in 1944, the North Dakota Republican has been a practicing corporation lawyer...
...John Bricker's campaign special chuffed through the state, two Senatorial candidates clambered aboard. One was slick, slippery Gerald Prentice Nye, 51, the old-line, Old Guard isolationist who has warmed one of North Dakota's Senate seats for 19 long years. The other was bespectacled Lynn Upshaw Stambaugh, 54, whom Gerald Nye tossed out by 972 votes in a hot, three-cornered GOPrimary last June (TIME, July 10). Stambaugh, an able Fargo lawyer, onetime (1941-42) National Commander of the American Legion, a man who believes deeply in international cooperation, is running as an independent...
...brotherhood of man. Why, there are Negroes standing outside the door of your convention and you won't let them in! This convention ought to go on record favoring the anti-lynching bill." While delegates shouted "no, no, no," Georgia's famed Dry William David ("Willie") Upshaw rose to crackle: "I am going to refute this young man. He is not an old-time Baptist." Oldtime Baptist Upshaw refuted at length...
Against Nominee Willie Upshaw's 82,000 votes in 1932, Prohibition's David Leigh Colvin last week got some...