Word: slushing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...immediate concern to several other gentlemen: Harry F. Sinclair, who refused to answer in the oil investigations; Samuel Insull, who did not tell all he knew concerning the Frank L. Smith primary campaign fund; Thomas Cunningham, who defied Senator James A. Reed in the William S. Vare slush investigations...
...geographical balance of power should influence the choice of Federal commissioners; he was a onetime lawyer for the Pittsburgh Coal Co. and hence would be biased in important decisions now pending before the Interstate Commerce Commission; he was manager of the Pepper-Fisher primary campaign last spring, with its slush record...
Vare. Grimiest of the three is the case of Senator-elect William S. Vare of Pennsylvania. The James A. Reed investigations showed that he used a slush fund of some $700,000 to win the primaries last spring. Recent researches purport to reveal frauds in the November elections. In many wards in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, Mr. Vare's Democratic opponent, William Bauchop Wilson, did not poll a single vote; in 119 city districts in Pittsburgh, Mr. Wilson received less than ten votes in each. Mr. Vare received the votes of one dead man, of one 5-year-old girl...
Others. Then there remains the charge that Senator Lawrence D. Tyson of Tennessee, Democrat, used $1,800,000 in his primary campaign in 1924. Such a sum would be equivalent to $20 for every man and woman who voted for him. Other slush and corruption investigations which have dwindled, were those against Senators Watson and Robinson of Indiana, Senator Hawes of Missouri...
There was a lame composition about primary slush funds, entitled "Show That Fellow the Door.' They sang Senator Shipstead's farewell to his Farmer-Labor Party and a none too ingenious parody intended to represent Senator James A. Reed...