Monday, Mar. 31, 1947

Overruled

The Senate press corps last week got its second Negro member in two weeks (TIME, March 24)--and the second since 1873. The Senate Rules Committee--whose chairman, Illinois' C. Wayland ("Curly") Brooks, has nearly half a million Negroes in his state--admitted Louis R. Lautier of the Atlanta Daily World, over the objections of the daily correspondents' committee.

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