Word: electively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although unable to organize the Senate and appoint its majority committees, the Democrats plus Farmer-Laborite Henrik Shipstead plus any one of the half dozen Republican insurgents will be able to control all legislation. And, such being the case, it seems probable that the two slush-tainted Republican Senators-elect, Frank L. Smith of Illinois and William S. Vare of Pennsylvania, will not be seated...
...states will elect 34 senators who will take office on March 4, 1927, and thereby determine the political complexion of the upper house of the 70th Congress. The party candidates in their relative degrees of surety, probability and doubtfulness are herewith presented...
...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...
Then Senator Reed looked into the Republican campaign manager's story of an "$8,000,000 international hankers' pool" to elect Democratic senators in Indiana. This simmered down to a $600 bureau run by the gentle-voiced widow of a minister to promote "world friendship among children...
...chemical operations, as well as the requisite books, should be provided "as soon as there shall be sufficient, benefactions for these purposes," and that professors should be appointed "as soon as ways and means can be devised for raising sufficient sums for their encouragement." Meanwhile, the Corporation proposed to elect to the professorships. "Some gentlemen of public spirit and distinguished abilities, who would undertake the business, for the present, for the fees that may be obtained from those who would readily attend their lectures." Thus uncertainly were laid the first foundations of the present Medical School...