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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trial with him was 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Reckoning | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Reckoning | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...dropped in at the Metropolitan Opera in a bare-shouldered black evening dress that prompted the Daily News to headline: MRS. VP'S STRAPLESS GOWN KO'S TOWN. Visiting backstage after the Veep rejoined her, she obligingly posed for cameramen and confided to Tristan und Isolde Stars Helen Traubel and Lauritz Melchior: "What the boys want is some Hollywood cheesecake from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Entrances & Exits | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...that fortuitous moment, Cameron met lissome, brunette Helen Maria Alvarez, 27, who in seven years at Tulsa's radio station KTUL had progressed from secretary to radio-time saleswoman. He soon persuaded Helen Alvarez to quit her job and become president of a new Cameron project-Tulsa's first television station, KOTV...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Helen of Tulsa | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

Cabot-Miss Helen M. Cam. History; Louis Hartz '40, Government; Harry Levin '33, English; Kenneth B. Murdock '16, English; Alfred S. Romer, Zoology; and Henry Murray '15, lecturer on Clinical Psychology...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe to Institute Faculty Tutor Plan at Party Friday | 12/10/1949 | See Source »

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