Word: slushing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...past summer gave Senator Reed his golden opportunity to bay after primary slush funds in Pennsylvania and Illinois (TIME, June 21 et seq.). Republicans accuse Mr. Reed of sheer Administration baiting. People wonder what pressure could have been brought to bear to terminate, suddenly, his probing of Samuel Insull and other Illinois "angels...
...American wage earners and producers, and that to elect a Democratic senate or house would be a step in the direction of letting down the bars for foreign cheap labor competition in our market." The Democrats, being the party out of office, naturally run on a reform platform and "Slush" is their war cry, even out in Indiana where the Reed Senatorial Committee has been asked to investigate their primaries. Representative Oldfield last week journeyed to Allentown, Pa., where Democracy is fighting desperately to elect to the U. S. Senatorship, William B. Wilson, onetime (1913-21) Secretary of Labor...
Meanwhile, in Illinois, primary slush oozed over the $1,000,000 mark, finally stopped dripping- chiefly because Voltaire-tongued Investigator-Senator James A. Reed had left for his Kansas City home, not to do any more prodding until October. Ten days in a Chicago courtroom had taught Mr. Reed (a reader of Rabelais) many things: he saw the tortuous workings of Illinois political machines, he was given an object lesson in munificence by public utility potentates (TIME, Aug. 9), he added a few choice items to his ever-increasing stock of Anti-Saloon League lore, he heard of gunplay...
...boss, who is the Second Ward; States Attorney Robert E. Crowe, prosecutor of famed Loeb and Leopold, now the leader of the Crowe-Barrett gang; Daniel J. Schuyler, attorney for Mr. Insull; Thomas W. Cunningham of Philadelphia, who openly defied the committee in behalf of Senatorial Candidate Vare, Pennsylvania slush prizewinner...
...each state the Senatorial campaign is painted with its own peculiar colors, beer v. no beer, farmers v. urbanites, slush v. purity, etc.; but the sweeping question which buzzes nationally is: "Will the Democrats be able to capture control of the next Senate?" Even in the 69th Congress, the Democrats and the insurgent Republicans, whenever they united, could outvote the regular Republicans. But actually to control the Senate and be able to organize its committees, the Democrats must have at least 49 members. They now have 39, are not in danger of losing any, because the seven Democratic vacancies...