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Instead he hurried home, stripped off his oxford shirt, rep tie, and cord suit, and dressed in his oldest dungarees, T-shirt, and battered loafers. Later that afternoon, posing as a boy just out of high school, he landed a $65-a-week job with a construction company. Nine weeks later, having made his $600, this young fellow quit his job and put his tie back...
Both Murphy's scheduling director, Maurice Flynn, and his campaign treasurer, Rep. Charles Artesani, insisted that a rigorous schedule of previous commitments had forced Murphy to forego the meeting. "There's certainly no reason why he wouldn't want to speak," Flynn said. "It's a matter of scheduling, a matter of commitment...
...Novikoff ease began innocently enough in March, 1954, when he received a subpenna from the Senate Judiciary Committee headed by William Jenner (Rep.-Ind.), then engaged in an investigation of subversives in education...
Shortly after receiving the subpoena, Novikoff conferred with the president of the University, Carl W. Bergmann, and the University counsel, and a few days later appeared voluntarily at an informal meeting of the committee, attended by Senator Herman Welker (Rep.-Idaho) and committee counsel Robert Morris. After the meeting, Novikoff announced his willingness to go to Washington at his own expense and testify at a public hearing...
Under the new law, candidates must be labeled ("Rep." or "Dem.") on all primary ballots. Thus a Republican running in the Democratic primary is clearly recognizable as an interloper, as is a Democrat in a G.O.P. primary. In 1952, under the old law, 14 candidates won both nominations for the U.S. House of Representatives. Last week, under the new law, only two scored double victories. In 1950 four candidates for top state offices won both nominations. Last week only one-vote-getting Attorney General Pat Brown, the only Democrat holding a major state office -was able...