Evening star., 1951-04-23
Moody
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EDWARDS, former president OF Cne
Detroit City Council"
Senator Moody is a Democrat. u
Gov. Williams said in announcing
the appointment. Mr.. Moody's S
political affiliation was not gen.
Ierally known before. but an asso-
ciate on the Detroit News. de-
scribed him as "a New Dealer from
the start"
Mr.. Moody's appointment gives
the Democrats four-vote margin
in the Senate. The division is SO
to 46.
Mr.. Moody is a personal friend
of Gov. Williams and was long
time friend of Senator Vanden-
berg. He went to Washington in
1888.
Blair Moody most completely
meets the needs of Michigan for
Senate representation and needs
of the Nation for capable, vigorous
and experienced leadership" Gov.
Williams said.
Was Friend of Roosevelt.
II know him as fine citizen of
high ability, a friend of Senator
Vandenberg, Frank Murphy and
Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
mo one can take the place of
Arthur Vandenberg," Gov. Will
liams continued. But I believe
Senator Moody will carry on in
the Vandenberg tradition of plac-
ing the Nations welfare above all
other considerations"
Mr.. Moody's interim appoint
ment is until the end of the cur
rent term, ending in January,
1858.
He is Michigan's first Demo-
cratic Senator since Prentiss w.
Brown lost out to Republican
Homer Ferguson in 1912.
The News announced today that
he had resigned from it's staff.
Mr.. Moody'S experience as a
neWspaperman has been world
wide. He started with the News
in 1928, covering the mayoralty
administration of Frank Murphy
the late Supreme Court Justice.
He went to Washington for the
News in the first year of the
Roosevelt administration. He be-
came a White House intimate.
His wartime correspondents
work took him to Africa, Iran and
Europe. He covered the Anzio
beachhead and the Casino Battle.
Mr.. Moody is native of New
Haven. Conn. He was educated in
public schools of Providence, r. l..
and Brown University, class of
1922. Before joining the News he
was teacher for a short time at
a Quaker boys school in Provi-
dence.
Ran Radio Program.
In addition to his newspaper cor
reSpondence, Mr.. Moody has be-
come widely known in Michigan
through his weekly radio program,
Meet Your Congress.
1t was during a recording for
this program that Senators Cape
hart, Republican, of Indiana, Hum
phrey, Democrat, of Minnesota
and Lehman, Democrat, of New
York got into a name-calling Scuf-
fe last week.
He majored in economics at
Brown University and a series of
articles he wrote on the depres-
sion of the 1930s was expanded
into a book: Boom and Bust" f"
published in 1941 by Duell, Sloan
& Pearce.
Mr.. Moody'S Washington columns
were carried in Barron's Weekly
and the Boston Globe, as we'll as
the News.
His scholastic honors include
Phi Beta Kappa, national honor
airy scholastic society. He is
married and has three sons, Blair,
jr.. Christopher and Robert Orton
Moody.
Wrote Marshall Plan Articles.
He toured Europe in 1850 writ
ing a series of so articles on ef-
fects of the Marshall Plan on
economics and governments of the
free nations of Europe.
A member of the National Press
Club and the Gridiron Club, Mr..
Moody is known as one of Wash
ington's most aggressive and
hardest working newsmen.
Gov. Williams recalled today
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