Word: slushing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dramatic event that occurred during its existence, was the greatest prize fight ever held in our history and that contemporaneous with the celebration of the Declaration occurred an election for United States Senator in the state of its birth which was characterized by the existence of the greatest slush fund in our history...
Four days later, Ralph O. Brewster, big-mouthed Republican Governor of Maine, broke from his party strings and charged Mr. Gould with excessive use of slush in his primary campaign.* Said the Governor...
...last week announced that he, a Democrat, would vote to seat slush-tainted Senator-elect William S. Vare, a Repubican...
...Illinois, in spite of slush, in spite of the hostility of the potent Chicago Tribune and Daily News, Frank L. Smith was elected. He came up to Cook county (Chicago) with a lead of 150,000; met George E. ("Boss") Brennan, Democratic Wet, to whom Cook County had given a plurality of 80,000. In New York State the Democratic city can swing the state, but not in Illinois. The Independent Republican crusader, Hugh S. Magill, ran a poor third...
...that Frank L. Smith of Illinois and William S. Vare of Pennsylvania have been elected to the Senate, it remains for upright Senators to find a way to oust them. Morally and, politically the case against them is good. Their primary slush was enough to make onetime (1919-22) Senator Truman H. Newberry look like a deacon. Their taint gave Democrats and Insurgents an issue, embarrassed even the most regular Republicans. A substantial majority of the next Senate will find it politically wise to unseat them. But Mr. Smith and Mr. Vare have raised the question as to whether...