20070415 April 15, 1949: Senator Tydings Delights Audience at Westminster High School

“Millard E. Tydings, U.S. Senator 1927-1951 and member of the University of Maryland Hall of Fame.”[1]
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UPDATE: Yes, he is the grandfather of Alexandra Tydings

Senator Tydings Delights Audience at Westminster High School

Democratic Advocate, April 15, 1949.

The invitations sent out by the Westminster Chamber of Commerce that Millard E. Tydings would make an address in the Westminster High School auditorium on Friday evening, April 8, drew an audience of over 500.

Senator Tydings spoke on many interesting subjects that was food for thought to the audience. He spoke of being in the first world war when he served as Colonel, and how dreadful the second was over the first.

But if another war comes it will be the most destructive in History and the U. S. will be involved deeply. He mentioned that the Marshall plan and the Atlantic Pact is something that will help prevent war if anything does. The binding of these nations into one pact will have a hostile country think before it strikes.

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Also:

Millard E. Tydings: A Featured Biography - - From the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.

http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/generic/Featured_Bio_Tydings.htm

Senator Millard E. Tydings (1890-1961) of Maryland used his sharp tongue and keen intelligence to battle two political giants. His first quarrel was with President Franklin Roosevelt over his New Deal programs and the president’s attempt to reorganize the federal judiciary.

Despite Roosevelt’s efforts to “purge” the Democratic Party of conservative critics such as Tydings in the 1938 mid-term elections, Maryland reelected Tydings with overwhelming support. Nearly two decades later, he battled Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin.

Appointed as chairman of a subcommittee to investigate charges of communist infiltration of the State Department, Tydings dismissed McCarthy’s claims, stating that the Senator had committed “a fraud and a hoax.”

McCarthy successfully sought retribution by helping to defeat Tydings in the 1950 election, making him one of the first high-profile victims of what would become known as McCarthyism.

TYDINGS, Millard Evelyn, (1890 - 1961)

http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=T000446

Senate Years of Service: 1927-1951 Party: Democrat

TYDINGS, Millard Evelyn, (father of Joseph Davies Tydings), a Representative and a Senator from Maryland; born in Havre de Grace, Harford County, Md., April 6, 1890;

attended the public schools of Harford County; graduated from Maryland Agricultural College (now the University of Maryland) in 1910; engaged in civil engineering with the Baltimore Ohio Railroad in West Virginia in 1911; studied law at the University of Maryland Law School, Baltimore, Md.; admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Havre de Grace in 1913;

member, State house of delegates 1916-1921; speaker of the house 1920-1922;

served as a private on the Mexican border at Eagle Pass, Tex., 1916; enlisted as a private in the First World War in 1917; promoted to lieutenant colonel and division machine-gun officer in 1918; served in Germany with the Army of Occupation; discharged from the service in 1919;

author; member, State senate 1922-1923; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-eighth and Sixty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1923-March 3, 1927); was not a candidate for renomination in 1926, having become a candidate for United States Senator;

elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1926, 1932, 1938 and 1944 and served from March 4, 1927, to January 3, 1951; was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1950;

chairman, Committee on Territories and Insular Possessions (Seventy-third through Seventy-ninth Congresses), Committee on Armed Services (Eighty-first Congress);

nominated in 1956 as Democratic candidate for the United States Senate but withdrew before election due to ill health; engaged in the practice of law in Washington, D.C., and Baltimore, Md.;

died at his farm, ‘Oakington,’ near Havre de Grace, Md., February 9, 1961; interment in Angel Hill Cemetery.

Bibliography
American National Biography; Dictionary of American Biography; Keith, Caroline H. For Hell and a Brown Mule: The Biography of Senator Millard E. Tydings. Lanham, MD: Madison Books, 1991; Grant, Philip, Jr. “Maryland Press Reaction to the Roosevelt-Tydings Confrontation.” Maryland Historical Magazine 68 (Winter 1973): 422-37.

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