Word: bauchop
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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William S. Vare of Pennsylvania, winner of the great Republican slush-fund derby, is opposed by untainted, able William Bauchop Wilson, onetime (1913-21) Secretary of Labor under President Wilson. In spite of the fact that such a Republican as Senator Norris of Nebraska (TIME, Oct. 25) is fighting against the election of Mr. Vare, in spite of the fact that his chances of being unseated by the Senate are many, it would be no less than a political revolution for Pennsylvania to elect a Democratic Senator...
Republican Senator George W. Norris, whose Nebraskan voice no mind but his own can control, swung into Pennsylvania, campaigned for William Bauchop Wilson, onetime (1913-21) Secretary of Labor and now Democratic candidate for the Senate. Senator Norris was not so much for Mr. Wilson, able Wilson though he is, as against Congressman William S. Vare, winner in the great Republican slush-fund primary of last May. Piqued, Republican Manager William L. Mellon, nephew of the Secretary of the Treasury, called upon Senator Norris to go back home, to leave Keystoners to attend to their own business. Democrats deemed this...
...save itself the awkward task of removing Mr. Vare (who won the $3,000,000 primary campaign) is not to elect him next November. Mr. Norris' plan of political surgery was the more happy because, oddly, the Democratic nominee happens to be a man of some note-William Bauchop Wilson, onetime Cabinet member under Woodrow Wilson, and the first Secretary of Labor...
...William Bauchop Wilson, one-time Secretary of Labor (1913-21), the Democratic nominee for governor of Pennsylvania, who reported personal campaign expenditures of $88 and roused Democrats to fury at President Coolidge by revealing, reluctantly, that after the nomination the President had offered him a post on the new Railway Mediation Board. Rabid Democrats interpreted this as showing that the President held Mr. Wilson's chance for election in Pennsylvania, and even the honor of running, to be of no account...