Word: slushing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chicago?Tabloid slush drools over a murderess. Burly satire...
...Heflin robs of the title "Buffoon of the Senate"-were determined to prevent Senator James A. Reed's committee from making any more campaign fund investigations. Mr. Reed of Pennsylvania, particularly, did not want his distant cousin, Mr. Reed of Missouri, to open the ballot boxes which elected slush-tainted William S. Vare. The Pennsylvanian insisted that the regular Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections, containing a majority of old-guard Republicans, was best fitted to count these ballots. The result was the Battle of the Cousins which displaced all other Senate business; which turned Senators into a pack...
With tears in his voice, if not in his eyes, the senectissimus of all U. S. Senators stood up and pleaded with snarling filibusterers for the passage of his Second Deficiency bill, dearer to him than all investigating of slush funds. He, Francis Emroy Warren of Wyoming, 82, Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, had made this plea more than 20 times during the 40½-hour Reed v. Reed wrangle. He had spent half of one night on a Senate lounge when he should have been home in bed. His snow-white moustache drooped; his eyes were sunken, bleary...
Representative William S. Vare, slush-tainted Senator-elect from Pennsylvania, made his swan song and was roundly cheered by the Republican side...
...Congress. He, a sizzling meteor among orators, a bastinado of the present trend of U. S. politics, has seized the role of Senator inquisitor, which Borah of Idaho, Walsh of Montana and the late LaFollette of Wisconsin once held. Everyone knows how Senator Reed revealed several millions in certified slush in Pennsylvania and Illinois (TIME, May 31, et seq.) ; how he dragged the Anti-Saloon League into the investigations and gave it its first important public airing. These are some of the reasons why the Gentleman from Missouri, vigorous at the age of 65, finds himself the only Senator...