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...From President Hoover "Lame Duck" Congressman Richard Nash Elliott last week got one of the best jobs in the whole Federal service when he was appointed Assistant Controller General for a 15-year term at $8,000 per year.* After 14 years' House service he was rewarded with this big bright plum chiefly because, as chair man of the Public Buildings Committee, he had scotched the old "pork barrel'' method of Federal construction and inaugurated the Government's present "lump sum" system of public building. To him, too, goes much credit for the extensive housing program to beautify the Federal...
...stalked over into the House looking for a fight with a Representative. Down the centre aisle, shoulders hunched, hands deep in pockets (his usual carriage, but now more sour than ever) stalked Senator Thaddeus H. Caraway of hungry Arkansas. At a table sat baggy-faced Representative Louis C. Cramton, lame duck of Michigan, busy with papers. Beside him was big Representative Schafer of Wisconsin. Mr. Schafer poked Mr. Kramdens ribs, tried to call his attention to the Senatorial intruder. Mr. Cramton got busier than ever with his papers. Chip still on shoulder, Senator Caraway turned, strolled...
...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...
Debate on the issue was slow, technical, dragging on for four days. Adroitly the "power trust" foes wangled the issue around so that it would appear that a vote against the Thomas Walsh resolution was a vote for the "power trust." Administration Senators said little. They let round-faced Lame Duck Senator Goff of West Virginia lead the Hoover defense. When the question finally came to a vote, the Thomas Walsh resolution was adopted (44-10-37) by an alliance of Democrats with the Insurgent crew including Idaho's Borah, California's Johnson, New Mexico's Cutting...
...sent to a Federal penitentiary for using the mails to defraud. In 1924 his term was over, but he was convicted on a State charge sentenced for seven to nine years. In the interim he was released on bond and hurried to Florida where he tried a lame scheme. He got in trouble with Florida's courts, attempted to flee the U. S., was caught in New Orleans, returned to Massachusetts. In October 1931, he will be eligible for parole, is not preparing to fight. In Boston Federal Prison, he was popular because of his ability to write amusing...