Word: harmonizations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Porch Light. Indiana's Freshman Democratic Congressman Randall S. Harmon, 55, who has been collecting $100 a month from the Government for renting out his own front porch to himself for an office in Muncie, announced that the Post Office Department owed him money, too. Declared Harmon, a political rolling stone and onetime tool worker who tumbled into office with last fall's Democratic landslide: The Muncie post office used his versatile porch for a drop-off station for sacks of mail for nine years. The tab: $1,800. Replied Postmaster General Arthur E. Summerfield: "No legal basis...
Indiana's freshman Democratic Representative Randall S. Harmon, 55, shrugged off all the bother as mere pother. Sure, he admitted, he was drawing $100 a month from the Government for renting himself his own front porch back home in Muncie (monthly mortgage payments for the whole house: $54.40), which he had converted into an office. Moreover, his office was being run by his wife, and she was getting a secretarial salary of $4,424.16 a year from the U.S. "So what?" cried Congressman Harmon last week. "It's nobody's business." Added...
...fantastic Congressman Harmon's business was obviously public business, and as such, it was the latest in a series of exposés on congressional nepotism, payroll high jinks and money-hungry Congressmen that have boiled out of Capitol Hill in the past two months. And the man behind the Harmon story was the newsman behind the entire series: Scripps-Howard's lean, bow-tied Vance Henry Trimble, 45, a shirtsleeve reporter who got his beats by dogged digging in a city where newsmen often settle for the mimeographed handout and the formal press conference...
Payroll Pay Dirt. Then, still plugging away at his list of freshmen Congressmen with relatives on the payroll, Trimble struck pay dirt when he called Mrs. Randall Harmon on a hunch. He hit on precisely the right question: "Incidentally, where is your office?" Mrs. Harmon's answer: "Why, on the front porch." An Indianapolis reporter later wrote that Harmon was so enraged by Trimble's story that he waved a pistol and vowed: "I figure on throwing the fear of God into that Vance Trimble...
Just as the season has produced no football team that towers head and shoulders above all the others, it has uncovered no single outstanding player in the tradition of Minnesota's Bronko Nagurski (1929), Michigan's Tom Harmon (1940), Ohio State's Hopalong Cassady (1955). Instead, All-America selectors-and the pro teams-will have to choose among a large group of topflight, if not superhuman players...