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Calaman, William
Calaman at co.dane.wi.us
Wed Nov 1 14:01:58 CST 2000
Thomas, who, because he was assigned to cleaning out the chicken coops in
the prison yard, earned the well-deserved moniker "Congressman Chickenshit."
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/01/arts/01CND-RING.html
Ring Lardner Jr., Member of Blacklisted 'Hollywood Ten,' Dies
excerpt:
"But by the time he began to serve what turned out to be a little
more than nine months in 1950, he was quite astonished to learn that
Congressman Thomas, was also imprisoned in Danbury after his
conviction of defrauding the government by putting fictitious workers
on his congressional payroll. Mr. Lardner and Mr. Thomas did not
become friends in prison."
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