Word: slushed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Senate Doings. By combining their strength with the Democrats, the Senate Insurgents were able to : 1) get an extra appropriation of $50,000 for their Slush Fund Committee to continue bedeviling regular Republican Senators-electon their campaign expenditures; 2) recall legislation to modernize three battleships which was later passed a second time over their pacifist protests; 3) order investigation, into the disproportionate prices of flour, bread and sugar. The Insurgents' frank desire for an extra session of Congress lent realism to the threat of Democratic Leader Robinson to force one unless his $25,000,000 Federal food fund...
...dares republish the charges of Ruth Hanna McCormick, Republican senatorial nominee in Illinois, against the Senate Slush Fund Committee may be prosecuted for "wilful and malicious libel." Notice to that effect was served last week upon the Press by Senator Gerald Prentice Nye of North Dakota, the committee's chairman, and three of his colleagues (New York's Wagner, Washington's Dill, Vermont's Dale. Missouri's Patterson did not sign the edict...
Chairman Nye departed on a vacation to Wisconsin. Nominee McCormick took to the stump with the claim that the Slush Fund Committee episode had won her 50,000 Illinois votes. Whether it had or not, it certainly won her the sympathy of Citizen Calvin Coolidge who said in one of his syndicated articles...
Mississippi. Democratic Senator Pat Harrison and seven Democratic Congressmen were renominated without opposition. Congressmen Ross Alexander Collins won renomination after a close contest. The Senate Slush Fund Committee held a special meeting at Fargo, N. Dak., to investigate charges that Chicago detectives were trailing its chairman, Senator Gerald Nye of North Dakota. One detective admitted that he had been assigned the task of looking up Senator Nye's "life" but insisted he was not trying to get something on him. Asked by newsmen if he thought the detective had been employed by friends of Illinois' Republican Senatorial Nominee...
...with captions, tickled it with humor, has supplied it with brass bands and flags and letters from home and photographs of the explorers' children on the croquet lawns of Massachusetts?with everything except, by some unaccountable omission, 'love interest'? has in brief, found it snow and left it slush...