Word: overlies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Congressman J. Parnell Thomas sat disconsolately in Washington's district court last week, a pudgy, petulant man whose high-riding days were over.
The prosecution's evidence was overwhelming. Thomas had padded his congressional payroll for eight years with fictitious employees and pocketed most of their salaries for himself. On the third day of his trial for fraud, as some of Congressman Thomas' non-working "employees" prepared to testify against him...
Parnell Thomas, who in his 203 had changed his name from Feeney to Thomas, and his religion from Catholic to Episcopal, had served his New Jersey district in Congress for twelve years, had even been re-elected last November with the charges hanging over him. He had indignantly denied them...
It was the most persistent smog in Los Angeles history; the yellow-grey pall had hung over the city for more than two weeks, shutting off the sunshine, befouling the famed Southern California air and stinging the eyes of outraged thousands. Angelenos were not only appalled but furious. Pasadena property...
The first question was tough: "Why do you vote so often with the Democrats and why don't you run on the Democratic ticket?" Glib Wayne Morse, a maverick on the Republican range who voted with the Democrats three times out of four in the 81st Congress, took nine...