Word: rowbottom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before the State Board of Education had appeared Dr. William Card, onetime teacher at University of Wisconsin, now an organizer of the American Federation of Teachers. Dr. Card complained that spectacled, able young high-school teacher Stanley McMahon, president of a new teachers' union, and Union Member James Rowbottom had been fired from their Gilbert school jobs. Since 1931, said he, Gilbert's school board has fired 50 teachers "to make room for horsetrading and political favors." He found that all the Range towns had a teacher exchange system "more or less on the plan...
Died. Harry Emerson Rowbottom, 49, onetime Indiana representative; of diabetes; in Evansville. In 1931 he was convicted of accepting a bribe to recommend a Post Office appointment, was sentenced to serve one year and a day, was later paroled...
Republican Harry Ephraim Rowbottom of Evansville, onetime tailor and accountant, Mason, Moose, Eagle and Shriner, was elected to the House of Representatives from the First Indiana District in 1924. Last November a Democrat beat him for reelection. The Rowbottom campaign fund was in the red. As a "lame duck," he continued to get small postal jobs for friends, took their money as contributions to his deficit. For this he was caught, indicted. On trial at Evansville last week he admitted that one Walter Ayer had given him $750 and that he had recom- mended Ayer's son Gresham...
Vainly did his attorneys plead for clemency, argue that their client was physically weak, that he lacked the mental calibre for the office of Congressman. U. S. Judge Charles E. Woodward, deaf to entreaties, fined Bribee Rowbottom $2,000, sentenced him to a year and a day in the Federal penitentiary.* Said Judge Woodward to Rowbottom before the bar: "You have betrayed your constituents and cheapened public office. The Court cannot condone the flagrant and cynical barter and sale of public offices. The sentence must be of such nature as to deter other Congressmen from such practices...
Indiana's Representative Harry E. Rowbottom, 46, father of one child, has fallen upon bad days. After serving three consecutive terms in Congress, he was defeated last November by Democrat John W. Boehne. And last week he was arrested at Evansville, Ind., charged with having accepted $750 from two relatives of one Gresham Ayer in return for recommending Ayer to be a rural mail carrier.* Venal Lame Duck Rowbottom refused to say anything about the case when he posted $10,000 bond and was released pending organization of a Federal Grand Jury...