Word: offs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Trimble finally got permission to work on his own time going over congressional payrolls. His efforts began paying off Jan. 5, when the 19-paper Scripps-Howard chain broke his detailed story charging that "at least one of every five lawmakers has some kinfolk on his staff."
Paternal Solicitude. Trimble followed up his story. Thumbing through a three-inch stack of House pay records for January, he broke the news that Iowa's freshman Democratic Representative Steven V. Carter was paying his 19-year-old son $11,873.26 a year as his public-relations assistant, although...
The principal object of his salvage operation is the heroine. But he is so worried about the bad in her that he fails to appreciate the good, and she hates him for it. Sick of his tyranny, desperate for affection, she goes off on pathetic tangents of rebelliousness-threatens to...
Died. Lou Costello (real name: Louis Francis Cristillo), 52, comedian, the fat funny half of Abbott and Costello; of a heart attack; in Beverly Hills, Calif. "Now, on the St. Louis team," Straight Man Bud Abbott would say, "Who's on first, What's on second, I Don...
Actually, the Fed's move will probably have little effect on credit. Money is not very scarce. Although banks have more of their deposits out on loans now than they did at the end of the last recession in early 1955 (largely because of a tremendous two-year growth...