Senator Harry Flood Byrd's Democratic machine rumbled through Old Virginny last week. Snuffing out some leftist opposition, it safely assured its own man, Lieut. Governor William Munford Tuck, 48, of getting the Governor's chair. Thus, if ailing Senator Carter Glass, 87—who has not answered a roll-call in three years—retires or dies, his successor will be a hand-picked Byrdman.
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