Word: vare
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...title "Buffoon of the Senate"-were determined to prevent Senator James A. Reed's committee from making any more campaign fund investigations. Mr. Reed of Pennsylvania, particularly, did not want his distant cousin, Mr. Reed of Missouri, to open the ballot boxes which elected slush-tainted William S. Vare. The Pennsylvanian insisted that the regular Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections, containing a majority of old-guard Republicans, was best fitted to count these ballots. The result was the Battle of the Cousins which displaced all other Senate business; which turned Senators into a pack of snarling, sleepless animals...
Representative William S. Vare, slush-tainted Senator-elect from Pennsylvania, made his swan song and was roundly cheered by the Republican side...
...Daugherty, is of 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...
...Adopted unanimously a resolution directing Senator James A. Reed's investigating committee to seize the Pennsylvania ballot boxes and report on the alleged fradulent election of William S. Vare...
...departments and bureaus from more than 100 to 18. To the public he is known chiefly as an ardent Prohibitionist and one of the pacifiers of the anthracite coal strike of 1923. Last spring he aspired to be a U. S. Senator, ran a poor third to Messrs. Vare and Pepper in the primaries. Now Mr. Pinchot is without a job; perhaps he will retire to the philosophic pleasures of old age; more likely he will prepare for the next opportunity to do his phoenix trick...