Word: electable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Debated whether or not to seat two members-elect; voted not to seat them pending further report of an investigating committee on corruption charges...
Senators-Suspect. There were two men, two charges, two issues. Senators-elect William Scott Vare, portly Pennsylvanian, and Frank Leslie Smith, slim Illinoisian, were charged 1) with using too much money to get nominated, and 2) with using money improperly (in Mr. Vare's case) and accepting money improperly (in Mr. Smith's). The charges stood substantiated by the Senate's own investigating (the famed James Reed) committee. The issues which towered were 1) what right had the Senate to judge a state's representative ? 2) what procedure should the Senate follow...
...Intramural Sports Council will elect a president and secretary of the organization, in a meeting to be held tonight at 7 o'clock in Hemenway Gymnasium, it was announced last night by A. W. Samborski '25. Plans for the coming basketball games of the interclub league will be discussed at the meeting...
...Republican town committee of Sudbury, Mass., voted almost unani- mously (6 to 1) to "use every art and effort" to draft President Coolidge, advising the U. S. to double his salary and re-elect him for life...
Atlantic Coast Republicans, including Senator Walter E. Edge of New Jersey, Representative-elect James M. Beck of Philadelphia, Representative John Philip Hill of Baltimore, one-time (1915-17) Senator James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. of New York and President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University, attended a dinner at the Union League Club, Manhattan. Mr. Wadsworth and President Butler made orations but the oracle of the evening was Captain Stayton, who outlined his Association's plans for next year...