Word: slushing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although unable to organize the Senate and appoint its majority committees, the Democrats plus Farmer-Laborite Henrik Shipstead plus any one of the half dozen Republican insurgents will be able to control all legislation. And, such being the case, it seems probable that the two slush-tainted Republican Senators-elect, Frank L. Smith of Illinois and William S. Vare of Pennsylvania, will not be seated...
...since Congress closed in the early part of July had President Coolidge been quoted directly on any controversial political question. He had used his Official Spokesman whenever a situation demanded it; he had assiduously avoided entering into the Senatorial campaigns;* in particular he had steered clear of the slush-tainted Republican candidates in Pennsylvania and Illinois. Suddenly last week...
Arthur Sears Henning, Washington correspondent for the Chicago Tribune, whose despatches are often more fantastic than factual, made the following report: "When an Illinois man discussing the matter [Senatorial candidacy of slush-tainted Frank L. Smith, Rep.] with the President remarked that 'Brennan is tarred with the same stick,' referring to the fact that the Democratic candidate for Senator accepted $15,000 from Insull, Mr. Coolidge turned upon him with that cold blue eye of his and snapped: 'But Brennan wasn't regulating Insull's properties...
William S. Vare of Pennsylvania, winner of the great Republican slush-fund derby, is opposed by untainted, able William Bauchop Wilson, onetime (1913-21) Secretary of Labor under President Wilson. In spite of the fact that such a Republican as Senator Norris of Nebraska (TIME, Oct. 25) is fighting against the election of Mr. Vare, in spite of the fact that his chances of being unseated by the Senate are many, it would be no less than a political revolution for Pennsylvania to elect a Democratic Senator...
...Then along came a harmless-looking newspaperman, Thomas H. Adams, with a fabulous story of Ku Klux Klan "super-government" in the ranks of Hoosier Republicanism. His charges have not yet been proved, but they make good campaign material. Last week Senator James A. Reed, wary slush bloodhound, stalked into Indiana for one day, long enough to hear Senators Watson and Robinson deny any connection with the Klan's taint. Unless the Democrats can "get the goods," Senator Watson looms for reelection, with Senator Robinson as his more doubtful ticket companion...