Monday, Nov. 15, 1954
The West
In the vast areas west of Kansas, the Republicans showed a net loss of only one House seat. Two G.O.P. incumbents were defeated--but so was California's Democratic Representative Robert Condon, who last year was refused AEC security clearance to witness an atom test. He lost to Republican John Baldwin Jr., a quiet young (38) lawyer who campaigned almost exclusively on Condon's security-risk record.
In Oregon's Multnomah County, Mrs. Edith Green, 44, who was named Oregon's "outstanding girl" 28 years ago, lived up to her early promise. She defeated Republican Tom McCall, who had, in turn, won over G.O.P. Incumbent Homer Angell in the primary election. Mrs. Green, a trailer-court operator, got Portland's labor vote, despite the fact that McCall stressed his own union membership (in the television and radio artists' union).
There was no great national issue to bind the House races together in a package for either party. Many winners were entirely unprepared for the results, a situation best summed up by a flustered Democrat, Mrs. Martha Griffiths, who won a Detroit seat from the G.O.P. Posing for her election victory picture, she pleaded: "Don't photograph my legs. I didn't have time for stockings."
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