Word: pearsons
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Last week a federal grand jury in Washington voted an indictment against Ohio's Brehm. Its charge: seven counts of "accepting" campaign contributions from his clerks. And it went Pearson one better: it also accused Brehm of extracting $1,000 from Mrs. Soliday's successor, Mrs. Emma S. Craven. Each count carries a maximum sentence of three years in prison and a fine...
Last September, when Brehm (rhymes with seem) was running for his fifth term, Columnist Drew Pearson lined the 58-year-old Congressman up in his sights. Brehm, wrote Pearson,* was "another quiet operator in the congressional kickback circle." Over a period of three years, said Pearson, the Congressman had compelled his elderly office clerk, Mrs. Clara Soliday, to kick back a regular share of her salary; at the top, he had taken back $240 of the $442 the Government paid her each month...
Soon after Pearson's story appeared, Mrs. Soliday, then 75, filed suit against Brehm, asking $7,340 for kickbacks paid him, plus $10,000 for damages. She had been told, Pearson elaborated, that the kickbacks went to a G.O.P. campaign fund. Snorted Brehm: "Too fantastic to reply to," and his district re-elected him by a 4,000-vote majority...
...running feud with Columnist Drew Pearson, Wisconsin's Senator Joe McCarthy tried to hit Pearson where it hurt-in the pocketbook. In a speech on the floor of the Senate, he urged the U.S. public to protest to the 650 newspapers which carry Pearson's column and to boycott Adam Hat Stores, Inc., which sponsors Pearson's Sunday-night radio broadcast (estimated audience: 10 million). Last week Washington Columnist Doris Fleeson, an old friend of Pearson's, broke the news that McCarthy had won a round: Adam Hats had decided not to renew Pearson...
Columnist Drew Pearson, attacked by Wisconsin's Senator Joe McCarthy in Washington (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), was not the only newsman to get roughed up last week. Other victims...