BLAIR MOODY - AUTOGRAPH SENTIMENT SIGNED - HFSID 293588
Price: $100.00
BLAIR MOODY
His handwritten sentiment, accompanied by his franked US Senate
transmittal envelope
Autograph Sentiment signed: "Gladly/Blair Moody", 4x3½ paper.
Toned from adhesive show through. Mailing folds. Otherwise, fine condition.
Accompanied by 9x4mailing envelope from the US Senate Committee
on Banking and Currency, bearing Moody's ink stamp frank, addressed to Ralph E.
Ward, Melrose Highlands, Massachusetts, postmarked Washington, D.C., March 28,
1952. Toned with adhesive residue. Edges frayed. Ink stamp through signature.
Otherwise, fine condition. Arthur Edson BLAIR MOODY (1902-1954), a
journalist and war correspondent, moderated a radio/TV program Meet
Your Congress from 1946 to 1952. In 1951, he was appointed to fill an
unexpired Senate seat from Michigan, but lost his bid for a full term in
1952. Democrat Moody died while campaigning to return to the Senate in 1954.
Moody reportedly had a long-term affair with the wife of his friend and fellow
Senator William Knowland, who also began an affair with Moody's wife. From the
collection of Ralph Errington Ward (1926-2009) a fighter pilot and
squadron commander in the China-Burma-India Theater of World War II. Ward went
on to become President and CEO of Cheseborough-Ponds, Inc., transforming the
cosmetics firm into a major home product conglomerate. Two
items.
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