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In a tight 1950 reelection race against former Illinois Representative Everett Dirksen, Lucas urged Kefauver to keep his investigation away from an emerging Chicago police scandal until after election day, but Kefauver refused.
Sep 7, 2011 · Estes Kefauver, a Democratic presidential candidate in 1956, was known to reporters as a notorious womanizer; once, as his campaign bus pulled into an Upper Midwest town, he blurted out “I...
Nov 19, 2013 · In 1955, Estes Kefauver (1903-1963) conducted extensive Senate hearings on juvenile delinquency and interstate adoption practices.
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Cozy working relationships between urban criminal organizations, big-city labor unions and the mid-20th-century Democratic Party were first exposed by Senator Estes Kefauver’s investigations...
At the association’s prompting, Senator Estes Kefauver helped create a committee to investigate the problem. When the Kefauver Committee proceedings were televised in March 1951,...
A Public Drama. While addressing the problem of organized crime, Kefauver, a political opportunist who had helped push for the creation of the committee, was hoping to gain national exposure and...
Apr 18, 2012 · All of it came courtesy of a deliberate-speaking, endlessly polite Southern senator in horn-rimmed glasses named Estes T. Kefauver.
