Word: congressman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Spokesman for the group was New York's Democratic Congressman Joseph L. Pfeifer, a Brooklyn surgeon. When an impatient Spanish reporter in Madrid asked when the U.S. was going to stop talking and start doing something about Spain, Pfeifer crisply ticked off some hard facts of U.S. political life: the remarks of a few itinerant Congressmen did not mean that the U.S. as a whole was possessed of any overwhelming desire to take Dictator Franco back into the family. A committee staff member, C. B. Marshall, used stronger words: "We give loans only to governments who represent their people...
...results of a statewide poll held true), 65% of Colorado's voters would vote for a change; only 27% wanted to keep Gene Millikin on. Even if Knous could be sidetracked with a federal judgeship, the Democrats had another odds-on favorite: Denver's Congressman John Albert Carroll, a husky, 48-year-old ex-policeman who walks a straight Fair Deal line. He led Millikin by a decisive margin in an earlier poll...
...Helen Campbell, a grandmotherly spinster who, as Thomas' chief secretary, had carried out the salary kickback scheme on orders from the boss. Helen Campbell, in a fit of conscience and disgust, turned on Thomas and told what she knew. Columnist Drew Pearson printed the full story, leading the Congressman to his downfall. For her "free, frank and full" confession, Judge Alexander Holtzoff let Miss Campbell go free...
...least five women, including Helen Campbell's niece and the niece's maid, Parnell Thomas' aunt and daughters-in-law, were on the Congressman's payroll, drew about $20,000 in salaries and never did any work. One, a clerk-typist on the payroll of the House Un-American Activities Committee, did put in a short stint-addressing Thomas' Christmas cards...
Stung by this and the fire-the-coach cries of alumni like ex-Congressman Ham Fish ('10), sometime All-America tackle, Bill Bingham last week announced his personal ideas about the course Harvard football should take: no more intersectional games, no more games outside the Ivy League. Cracked Chicago's Hutchins, in a quick recall of the Galahad go-round of ten years ago: "I'm glad to notice the cardiac changes in Mr. Bingham...