Word: springing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...
...words of Senator Bruce are rarely hushed. Last spring, Senator Neely of West Virginia told him to his face that he talked too much. "I believe that I do not exaggerate," said Mr. Neely, "when I say that we have heard the Senator from Maryland speak 75 times on this bill [the Watson-Parker railroad bill]. We have learned to know in advance just what he is going to say.... We have voted down everything the Senator from Maryland has proposed and defeated everything he has supported, by a majority of 3 to 1.... But some debaters are insuppressible...
Counsel for Lord Rothermere sought to show last week that his great business acumen had caused the value of the shares to spring from £1,600,000 to some £2,800,000 within six months. On this point Horace Imber, advertising manager of the Daily Mail from 1912 to 1921 testified instructively: "Lord Northcliffe had the unbusinesslike policy of running a newspaper for the sake of news and not primarily for what he could gain from advertisers.... He maintained a fixed subordination of advertising space to news space.... When Lord Rothermere took control the space given to advertising...
...Royal Highness seemed a boy; at 25, a lad; today, at 32, he passes for a youth. When he strode into The Bricklayers' Arms, a harmless enough "pub," shivering worn-out bums of 30 felt return the lively spring of their dead youth...
...Michael Borodin, the Russian field adviser to the Cantonese r threatened once more to upset the Chinese apple cart, last week, was the sudden appearance from the North of some 36,000 troops under the redoubtable "Chinese Cromwell" Feng Yu-hsiang. Feng was driven into the Mongolian fastness last spring. Nominally he is the friend of the Cantonese, but the ways of the "heathen Chinee" are no more "peculiar" than those of General Feng who is a Christian according to his lights...