Word: soliday
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...SOLIDAY Wood River...
...disgrace. A jury had just convicted him of extracting campaign fund kickbacks from an office clerk's salary. He was found guilty of getting $1,000 from Clerk Emma Craven, but not guilty of taking money from another clerk in his Washington office, tiny, 74-year-old Clara Soliday...
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...
...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...