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Biddeford Saco Journal

Location

Biddeford, Maine, United States of America

Date

Dec 26, 1961

Page

6

Saco Shavings By DICK CHARLES

In Saco on January 1 speculation centers on mayor Worthing appointing Republicans and a few Democrats to administrative posts for Inauguration day. Rumors name candidates for city clerk and street commissioner while past officials under Mayor Garland are recalled. political maneuvers touch the First District race and local projects at the industrial park.

Dick Charles Saco Thomas Burwell Kenneth Meserve Pauline Rumery Atty George Brickates Worthing Charles R. Cote Cote Republian Peter A. Garland Albert Cabana Roger S. Labbe Frederick A. Skinner George Bruckates Marion Lamontagne Clifford Ladd Martha Harriman Norman Langmaid Lawrence Jordan Robert Burns Recreation Commission Edward M. Cloudman Ralph L. Scammon Ethel Day Maude Tuttle Hortense Keith Laura B. Stickney Mike Rube Leslie Patterson Maurice Ross Carl Carter Patricia Steinke Charles Pendleton Myron West J. Edward Whelan Forrest Grace Merrill Harper Leroy Burgess Vivian M. Hickey Stanley R. Tupper James V. Day Kennebunk American Legion Washington, D.C Garland Day Robert Hale Camille Bedard Maine William Patten Charles Cote Louis Soucy Nicholas Scontras Andrew Fournier Senate Clifford A. Purvis

Brewster's political career and later controversies detailed

The narrative traces Brewster's rise from Portland lawyer to Maine governor and three-term congressman, his dissent on Pearl Harbor inquiries, and wartime support for Roosevelt. It covers his 1952 primary defeat amid a liquor-scandal backdrop, and his post office activism with Americans for Constitutional Action.

Pearl Harbor Hawaii Washington Brewster Roosevelt Maine Hitler Dexter Bowdoin College Harvard Law School Portland Maine House Senate Congress GOP John G. Utterback Bangor Utterback Senate Foreign Relations Committee Arthur Vandenberg Michigan Armed Services Committee Truman Douglas MacArthur Frederick G. Payne Payne Gardiner Herman Sahagian Legislative Research Committee Fairview Frederick W. Papalos Boston Papalos Sahagian Wayne Americans For Constitutional Action Americans For Democratic Action

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