Word: ex-congressman
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...them should be sent to the Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury, Conn., they would step into as odd a situation as any they ever conceived for a movie plot. One of the inmates at Danbury is New Jersey's pudgy, broken ex-Congressman J. Parnell Thomas, who is behind bars for padding his congressional payroll and pocketing the proceeds. It was he who presided over the committee that cited the Hollywood ten for contempt...
...Ex-Congressman J. Parnell Thomas, the apoplectic former chairman of the House Un-American Activities Committee now serving six to 18 months for payroll padding, was reported in charge of the prison's chicken flock at Danbury, Conn, and earnestly studying ways & means of increasing its dwindling egg production...
...parade followed Senator Lucas to the Havana high-school gymnasium where everybody but the four horses crowded in to hear the home-town boy open his campaign. Actually, Lucas was getting a late start: his Republican opponent, ex-Congressman Everett Dirksen, had been running for months. Dirksen, onetime isolationist, had seemingly abandoned his position during his term in the House, but this winter he was talking isolation again and his stand had re-won him the favor of the Chicago Tribune's Colonel Bertie McCormick. Launching his campaign last fall; Dirksen pitched his battle on the field of foreign...
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...
Convicting ex-Congressman Andrew Jackson May of Kentucky was a speedy matter-it took a federal jury less than two hours to find him guilty of taking bribes from wartime Munitions Makers Henry & Murray Garsson and conspiring to defraud the U.S. (TIME, Feb. 3, 1947 et seq.). But getting Handy Andy to serve his prison sentence of eight months to two years was not so easy...