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While the higher-flying Democrats politicked at a national level last week, local leaders attending the Chicago convention were also busy with their own problems. A TIME correspondent, prowling a hotel lobby, overheard this conversation between Baltimore's broad and boisterous Mayor Tommy D'Alesandro and another Maryland delegate. Subject: Millard Tydings, hand-picked last spring to battle Republican John Marshall Butler for his old Senate seat, since hospitalized with a serious attack of shingles...
...Alesandro: Tydings 90% dead is better than Butler...
Bloodiest victim of the purge was Baltimore's Mayor Tommy D'Alesandro, who as national committeeman wielded the most power in a power-weak, faction-racked state organization. As the kingmaker who nudged Tydings into the race with Mahoney, D'Alesandro was booted out as committeeman, spanked again by being ignored when Baltimore delegates to the national convention were selected...
...announced that he will run again this year. His first job: to win the Democratic primary from hard-running George P. Mahoney, perennial candidate and onetime chairman of the State Racing Commission; in this Tydings already has the backing of such powerful Democrats as Baltimore Mayor Tommy D'Alesandro and ex-Governor William Preston Lane Jr. His second job: to beat a John Marshall Butler who is notably stronger than he was in 1950, who has won the solid support of Maryland's Governor Theodore McKeldin and the busi ness community by working tirelessly for Maryland...
...recalled, he hawked the Sun in the streets for a penny, and "Now, it's full of bull, and it costs five cents." At crowded Workingmen's Hall in his native East Baltimore, D'Alesandro cockily proclaimed: "Editorials don't win elections, but paved streets win elections. Are your streets paved? Is your garbage being collected?" Roared the crowd: "Yea, Tommy!" Last week on election day, street-paving overcame the press: by 25,000 votes. Tommy D'Alesandro and his garbage collectors eclipsed Sam Hopkins...