Word: electable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Philadelphia, foes of the Republican machine bossed by U. S. Senator-Elect William S. Vare rejoiced greatly in defeat. The Vare-picked candidate for Mayor of Philadelphia, City Treasurer Harry A. Mackey, defeated J. Hampton Moore, a onetime Philadelphia Mayor, by 73,969 votes (unofficial count). This was over 100,000 votes less than Senator-elect Vare piled up in the Philadelphia pri-mary last Autumn against George Wharton Pepper and Gifford Pinchot. Elated, Candidate Moore and friends talked about another assault on the Vare machine at the November election, with an independent ticket. Philadelphians could thus look forward...
Senator Gerald P. Nye, aggressive progressive from North Dakota, told the President that he was wrong. He warned him that the contests over seating the Senators-elect, William S. Vare of Pennsylvania and Frank L. Smith of Illinois, were going to consume many valuable weeks of the Senate's time; that a jam of legislation would result...
William S. Vare, U. S. Senator-elect* from Pennsylvania, addressed the international convention of the Loyal Order of Moose in Philadelphia (see p. 28). Said he: "As a member of the Senate of the United States, a citizen of Philadelphia, and a member of the Philadelphia Lodge of Moose for 20 years, I welcome you to Philadelphia. This is the proudest moment of my life." Miles Poindexter, onetime (1911-23) U. S. Senator from Washington, returned from Peru where he has functioned for four years as ambassador. Loquacious, onetime Senator Poindexter made remarks: "There are heavy investments of American capital...
...Skinner, vice president, acting head, would ordinarily be the legal choice. But Mr. Skinner is a militant member of the Actors' Fidelity League; most of the Players are members of the rival Actors' Equity Association. They prefer, therefore, a member of their own group, Francis Wilson. To elect him, they must go to some pains, for Actor Wilson is not a member of the board of directors from which the chief executive must be chosen. The Players, however, could elect him to the board at the same time they elect him to the presidency...
Recent aspects of the Tully visitation have been disappointing. Classified with and by the elect as a hardboiled, outspoken cynic, Mr. Tully has been put to it to keep his crudeness spectacular and not merely crude, especially in his writings about the Hollywood notables whom he met when living with Charles Spencer Chaplin as strong-armed, sympathetic major domo. But these circus addenda to the Tully autobiography (Beggars of Life, 1924) return to a milieu wholly comfortable for Mr. Tully, where he can exercise his storytelling ability with no private emotion more complicating than a half-hearted wish to trade...