Word: electioneers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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¶ Adopted a resolution to pay Senator-suspect Vare of Pennsylvania $15,907.38 as his expenses in the contest of his election. This resolution in no way altered Mr. Vare's status as a Senator-suspect.
New England representatives, fondly eyeing their huge candy industry, cried out in protest against the higher sugar duties. It was recalled that in 1924 the U. S. Tariff Commission advised President Coolidge to reduce the sugar duty to $1.23 as ample protection for domestic producers. With an election approaching, the...
Politically Mayor Walker has a beautiful stage setup. The Brown Derby has gone over the hill in defeat and, with it, the influence of a "New" Tammany in New York Democratic politics. No longer are there fatherly scoldings from Albany, stern advice to "cut the nonsense and get to work...
The renomination and election of Mayor Walker would mean that the City of New York would continue to be run by Charles F. Kerrigan, his able "assistant." This onetime newsgatherer absorbs all the technicalities of municipal government, digests heavy reports, arranges backstage decisions, plants in the alert trial-lawyer mind...
Up to the moment of adjournment last week, neither Britain nor Japan had requested so much as a peek. Therefore dapper Mr. Gibson put the Hoover Formula back into his brief case and returned to his diplomatic post-Brussels. Four days later, Britain's First Lord of the Admiralty...