THE CONGRESS: Bucking Female

In her campaign in Illinois to be the first woman elected to the U. S. Senate, Republican Nominee Ruth Hanna McCormick last week found herself confronted by three adversaries instead of one. They were: 1) James Hamilton ("J. Ham") Lewis, Democratic Senatorial nominee; 2) Mrs. Lottie Holman O'Neill, independent dry candidate; 3) the Senate Committee on Campaign Expenditures chairmanned by North Dakota's 37-year-old Senator Gerald Prentice Nye. Adversary No. 3 furnished the week's melodramatics.

After Mrs. McCormick had won the Republican nomination in last April's primary, she filed with the Senate committee...

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