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...good behavior, and because he was finally ready to settle his $10,000 fine, ex-Congressman J. Parnell Thomas was paroled from the Federal Correctional Institution at Danbury, Conn. New Jersey's Republican Thomas, chairman of the House Un-American Activities Committee before the law caught up with him, had done nine months and two days of a six-to-18-month sentence for padding his payroll and swindling the Government out of some...
Matthew Neely is 75, a spouter of purple poetry and a wearer of tweed suits which come in shades of lemon and green. A veteran of the Spanish-American War, and a tireless joiner (Elk, Moose, Odd Fellow, Mason), Matt Neely is an ex-Congressman from West Virginia, served a term as governor of his state, is now in his fourth term as U.S. Senator. On the record, Senator Neely is a politician...
Shouts & Affronts. The Senate rapidly dealt with three others. Michigan's Homer Ferguson objected to the nomination of a brash, left-winging ex-Congressman named Frank Hook to the Motor Carrier Claims Commission. Hook had run against Ferguson for the Senate in 1948. "The nominee is lacking in capacity," said Ferguson. Down went Hook. Then there was Martin A. Hutchinson, an able Virginia lawyer nominated to the Federal Trade Commission. Hutchinson had run against Senator Harry Byrd in the 1946 primary-Byrd's first opposition in 21 years. Byrd told the Senate that he did not want Hutchinson...
...Senate. Of more importance to the rest of the nation, though the convention spent less time debating it, was the choice of two Republican candidates for U.S. Senator. Harold Mitchell's organization again carried the day. Ex-Congressman Joseph Talbot, a Roman Catholic, was named, without competition, to run against Catholic Senator Brien McMahon, who had done his best to identify himself with an atomic peace (he is chairman of the Joint Atomic Energy Committee...
Boston's ex-Mayor and ex-Congressman James M. Curley, setting out on a seven-week Holy Year pilgrimage to Rome, received a nice going-away present. As he boarded the liner Italia last week, the announcement came that the President had granted him a "full and unconditional" pardon of two convictions for which he had served jail time. The pardon covered convictions for 1) fraudulently taking a letter-carrier examination for a friend in 1903 (60 days in jail), and 2) mail fraud in mulcting $60,000 from clients on the promise of getting them Government contracts...