Show Round Merry err o- o oun l Pearson Exposed Salary Kickback 4 e r rBy 1 By Drew Pearson I Editors Editor's note This week Congre f es Walter Valter E. E B Brehm ehm of Oh Ohio o Was vas f guilty of taking salary kickbacks his stenographer This his it r culminated an expose i iDrew by Drew Pearson which began Sept 26 1950 1050 when Pearson for the thc I first time revealed the congressman's k i c k- k backs B Brehm r e h m immediately immediately immediately im im- mediately called Pearson Pearson Pearson Pear Pear- son a liar and threatened threatened threatened threat threat- ened to sue Pearsons Pearson's s r reply was to print more facts about Brehm's Drew Dreg A Pea kickbacks kickbacks facts facts that were iere an rt i iby I by a jury this week This follows another j spectacular at P son expose which led to a jail fail senter Congressman ex-Congressman Parnell Thomas I o of oi v X Jersey e iF I Incidentally the only two cases in inn entire history of of the United Stat State Stata congressmen going tp jail for t kickbacks have resul resulted cd from the r dog reporting of Drew Pearson Incase in incase case he was called a liar but It prof proved I case S WASHINGTON V They I They ON-They They say that Wt Rc J members of congress aren arent aren't t seta smart I d they dont don't measure up in m rough a tumble debate dont don't know the trio tricks b backstage wire pulling y However it took a lady to ou out outa the most powerful Republican in i Senate Senate Bob Bob Taft of Ohio ft G GLast Last fall Senator Margaret 1 Smith Republican of Maine l was bu 0 off the Senate investigating co The man who initiated her exit Was ator McCarthy 1 of Wisconsin who for Mrs ills Smiths Smith's revenge declaration 1 conscience in which she urged a hearing for those recklessly and f f smeared by McCarthy l However Mrs 1 Smith would not Dot II been dropped from the investigating ng had it not been for Senator T li covert support for McCarthy 1 It Mas 33 rather than McCarthy 1 who rear really A Athe the ax to the lady senator from Mai Maio Ia t Mrs Smith had little to say i at t time She smiled sweetly bided her herand herand her and worked at another committee j jr the Maryland 1 elections Several times Taft tried to pour poor water on this Maryland 1 probe c cI clai that the election scandals in Mar halt were peanuts compared to what hain ha hain hain in Ohio The elections committee L take a good look at Ohio he sai said wanted to unearth real skulduggery So Mrs i Smith quietly took y Taft at his liis word Senator Taft h u t right she sweetly told her Dem colleagues on the election k kwe we should investigate the Ohio elee el elMay May Jay Embarrass Taft Such Tart Such ahas a ahas has now been voted but Taft is si fit to be tied Angrily he told Re can leaders that the investigation h bat been cleared with him Reason for Tafts Taft's ii ire e is that an any 7 I ful investigation of his recent reeL reels in Ohio will probably embarrass hin hie 1 than the Democrats It will f tance stance that he spent far more Democrats and will show a vicious lit Catholic whispering campaign w wad some of Tafts Taft's followers Though Ife personally had nothing to do with ith campaign it was just as anti anti Amen Ameti al althe the unfair fake literature used by tit ill t publicans in Maryland 1 to defeat And bringing Catholicism anti-Catholicism out open is not going to help Tafts Taft's pr chances Thanks however to the kick Taft gave a lady the frog fron fronis r ris is now going to be investigated by bf by Smiths Smith's new committee Note Another Senate probe started with a flourish is now ga gal I dust thanks to Senator Gu Guy G Gillet i lei h Iowa Gillette's investigators u un some strange evidence regarding Lt Ll Joe Hanley of New York indicating a ahe he had no debts In Tn Iowa thoU worked a deal with Governor De year for the avowed purpose of off his debts For some strange Gillette has now blown cold on the x York election probe I Temptation to Soviet Soviet Most Most ous fact about the present intern inter situation is that four important co conow con connow now face elections This is proba e. e greater temptation to the Sovet to than all other political politic 1 consideration biped The countries facing major el elare elare elf elfare f are England certain to stage an antion i tion in the fall France due for elections this summer It Italy a 1 which ship important municipal elections this his and of course the U USA S A which r ready Cady warming up for the great fo foJ ta p political tug of war to see who iho hO t 4 the next president of the United Stron Strong Statements Statements Senator w JP ps Morses Morse's recent statement den I S General MacArthur 1 despite the I f fad most o of oC t his fellow Republicans I t. t lad opposite view came after some some ing probing of oC U. 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