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...charming wife, and a thrice elected member of the U. S. House of Representatives. In the House there are two ways to attain fame. One either has to be a character like Wet Representative La Guardia who has spent all summer trying to be arrested, or Dry Representative Upshaw, who sees hellfire in every drink; or else be a leader like Speaker Nicholas Longworth or Representatives Burton, Garrett and Madden, who are known by "the boys." Representative Mills is distinctly in the leader category, because of his financial wisdom and his prominence in New York State...
...point out a striking, little cripple on crutches, his hair awry, his lips compressed. Obviously, he wanted to talk. Gentlemen would turn to their guide, say curiously, "Who is that man?" And their guide, if well informed, would perhaps answer thus: "Well, he has a name-William David Upshaw-but is commonly known as 'Earnest Willie.' He comes from the Bible-loving, liquor-hating region of Georgia, and like most cripples who do not become incurably bitter, he is an incurable romantic. When he was 18, he fell from a load of wood, hurt his back, remained...
...first of his three Congressional terms seven years ago he talked from a wheel chair, said of his opponent: "No knightlier spirit than Edgar Watkins ever went to worthy combat or shivered lance at Camelot or Stirling." Himself lost in Camelot's misty lore, Knight Upshaw may often think in terms of questing a Holy Grail...
...career is, at least temporarily, checked. Last week, Georgians became politically active, held a primary-Democratic, of course. Mr. Upshaw lost the deciding county of his district by 24 votes to one Leslie J. Steele...
Vexed, chagrined Congressman Upshaw announced: "Private investigations have revealed that there is indisputable evidence of more than $100,000 of vote money having been sent into this district to defeat...