Word: slushing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Charge. A fortnight ago, warming up on his stump tour, Candidate LaFollette thrust an accusing finger at the moneybags of the Repub- lican Party. Cried he, in effect: "Huge slush fund ! Corruption ! A desperate attempt to buy the election...
...Case. On these grounds Candidate LaFollette erected a case maintaining that: 1) If Pennsylvania's quota is $600,000, the National Republican treasure trove must be $4,000,000 or $5,000,000; 2) "Use elsewhere" meant use in the Middle West; 3) "This campaign to raise enormous slush fund is based on malicious slander and libel. The New York Times says this conspiracy was initiated by William M. Butler, Chairman Republican National Committee, in conference with W. T. Mellon, brother of Secretary of Treasury, and Edward T. Stotesbury, partner of J. P. Morgan...
...Rochester, N. Y., where he set forth his program in detail, he swung south to Scranton where, on the basis of a report that the Republicans were trying to raise $600,000 for their campaign fund in Pennsylvania, he charged them with trying to raise a huge "corruption" or "slush" fund to buy the election...
...Dome, from Europe. To only two questions of reporters did he return positive answers. He said that politics had entered into the investigation and that he had put $45,000,000 into the development of Teapot Dome. Asked about the rumor that there was a $1,000,000 oil slush fund in Washington, he answered: "I haven't heard about that. How much am I supposed to have furnished...
...Rumors got about that a $1,000,000 slush fund had been organized by oil men against the investigation. Edward B. McLean, publisher of The Washington Post, was summoned to testify on the subject...