Word: senatore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fifteen minutes later, still grinning grimly, he arose and went limping out of the chamber, a Senator-reject from Pennsylvania. In the interval the Senate had refused (58 to 22) to accept him as a member because he and his friends had spent $785,000 to win the Republican nomination...
Hushed and solemn was the Senate chamber when the final Vare vote came. In the gallery sat William Bauchop Wilson, onetime (1913-21) Secretary of Labor Democratic contestant for the Vare seat. . . . . Before the roll call was finished, Vare was hobbling out of the room. Blind Senator Schall of Minnesota...
About the Senate flew reports that Governor John S. Fisher of Pennsylvania would appoint arch-lobbyist Joseph R. Grundy to the empty seat. Warned Senator Nye of North Dakota: "I give notice here and now that the appointee of Governor Fisher will need be one far removed from the Mellon...
At Harrisburg Governor Fisher retorted: ''I was shown a statement by a certain Senator better known for his voice than for his statesmanship. Well, all I say to that Senator who intends to oppose anything the Governor of Pennsylvania does is that he reminds me of an antimire...
*In the same primary onetime Senator George Wharton Pepper spent $1,804,979, onetime Governor Gifford Pinchot, $187,029, vainly seeking the senatorial nomination. The Senate set a moral limit for campaign expenditures in 1922 when it seated Truman Hanly Newberry of Michigan, condemned his political use of $196,000...