Milford chronicle., 1959-09-11
Sen. ]. f. Kennedy
To Visit State On
November 18th

United States Senator John F..
Kennedy will make another visit
to Delaware this fall. The Demo-
cratic lawmaker from New Eng
land has accepted an invitation
from the Democratic Cimmittee of
Brandywine Hundred to address a
statewide banquet on Tuesday,
November seventeenth at the Scot
tish Rite Cathedral on Lee Boule-
ward in Wilmington.
Mr.. Kennedy is no stranger to
Delaware. His last visit to the
state occurred during the 1858
campaign. The year previous he
addressed the Democratic Party's
Jefferson-JacksOn Day Dinner and
made a similar appearance in the
same capacity several years be-
fore.
His forthcoming address will be
delivered as part of an extensive
speaking tour which is being un-
dertaken shortly after Congress
adjourns.
Brandywine Hundred Chairman
James Harkins, in announcing the
Senator's acceptance, said he ex-
poets an audience of approximate
ly 500 people to attend the ban
Quet. Although sponsored by the
Brandywine Hundred Democratic
Comittee, it is expected that Demo-
Gratis an dother Delawareans will
be present from all part of the
state.
According to Mr.. Thomas Lewis,
Publicity Chairman for the affair,
extensive plans are being made to
make the banquet one of the larg
est and most successful ever stag
ed in Democratic circles outside
of the Jefferson-Jackson Day pro-
gram.
At the present time Senator
Kennedy is considered the front
runner among potential candidates
for the Democratic nomination for
President. He has served in the
United State Senate since 1852,
having been reelected last year
by a margin OF more than $4,000
votes.
Prior to his service in the Sem
ate, Mr.. Kennedy completed three
successive terms as a member of
the House of Representatives In
the 1858 campaign, Senator Ken
nedy became the first candidate
in the history of Massachusetts to
carry every city and county in the
Bay State
At the Democratic National Con-
vention in 1866 in Chicago, Sena-
tor Kennedy came within 20-12
nomination for Vice President of
the United States.
The Senator is a member of the
Senate Foreign Relations Commit
tee, Labor and Public Welfare
Committee, the Joint Economic
Committee, the Select Committee
to Investigate Improper Activities
in the Labor of Management Field,
and is chairman of the Subcommit-
tee on Labor. He was prominent
member of the Mcclellan Commit
tee during its exposure of abuses
in the Labor-Management field.
Many additional legislative ac-
complishments have been credited
to the Massachusetts lawmaker
In May 1858, he piloted through
the Senate the Kennedy-Douglas-
Ives Bill requiring full disclosure
and accounting of all employee
pension and welfare funds
In the same Congress Senator
Kennedy led a battle to utilize
American economic aid to drive a
wedge between Moscow and her
European satellites, including Po-
land, Finland, and other captive
nations. The Providence, Rhode
Island. Bulletin said: "Nr. Ken
nedy speaks in this instance, not
only with courage but with good
sense"
Senator Kennedy in the same
Congress obtained Senate appro-
val ia resolution urging u. S.
support of India's efforts to stabi-
lize its own economy. The Boston
Herald, applauding this action,
said: "Here is an investment op-
portunity which can bring not only
great financial returns, but also
great political and human ones.
We dare not pass it up"
A major step in the Eighty-fifth
Congress toward saving taxpayers
millions of dollars annually was
enactment by Congress of the Ken
nedy-Byrd-Payne Bill which will
revise the nations budget and ac-