Word: peppered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...getting on in the evening and the Senate was busy as well as sleepy, when Senator Pepper came in with a colossal bundle of printed matter. He explained that this bundle, which consisted of 1,700 pages would take a week at least to read but he offered to carry it around to any of his learned colleagues who might like to examine it. It was simply a codification of all the laws enacted between 1789 and last December by U. S. Congresses and had been prepared merely to establish physical evidence of the existence of the country...
Mildly appalled, the Senators refrained from insisting upon a reading, but they watched and inquired curiously as Senator Pepper trundled his burden hither and thither among the desks. Ripples of levity passed over the drowsy gathering as the bill was variously referred to as "that thing," "this huge document," "that 1,700 pages." After an hour's toying, "that thing" was passed...
...admitted that besides his contribution of $71,000 to his campaign he had signed a note for $100,000 to help campaign finances. Mayor Kline of Pittsburgh was questioned about a speech he was alleged to have made to city employes declaring that if they did not vote for Pepper they would be separated from the city payroll. This he vehemently denied. Colonel Eric Fisher Wood, Chairman of the Pepper Committee, admitted that a letter favoring Pepper had been published by his committee which purported to be signed by William Green, President of the American Federation of Labor...
Totals. The campaign committees filed their expenditures as required by law in Pennsylvania, and showed approximately $1,620,000 spent for the Pepper ticket, $670,000 spent for the Vare ticket and $195,000 spent for Pinchot...
When the Committee had ferreted through the accounts of Pinchot and Pepper, they examined the winning candidate's records and found that Vare, the light-wine and beer man, had spent upwards of $500,000, much of it in cash. Edward M. Kenna of Pittsburgh, of the Vare western headquarters, Allegheny County Treasurer for six years (at $6,500 a year), admitted after being pressed by Senator Reed, that he had contributed $20,000 of his own cash outright. Others in the Pittsburgh district donated amounts totaling...