Word: vare
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Jeers and hisses, mingled with spasmodic applause, interrupt Governor Pinchot. He has been jeered before; he proceeds: "I refused to support Mr. Vare in the election on the sound and proper ground that his nomination was partly bought and partly stolen and I have no doubt that he deserves to be and will be excluded from the Senate...
Winding up, the World editorial grew hot: "A more vulnerable nomination could hardly be conceived. It places Mr. Coolidge in the position of yielding to Senator Reed's bluster, and of indorsing Secretary Mellon's attempt to whitewash the Pepper-Vare primary. It throws an experienced and impartial Commissioner out of office to give his place to an untried corporation lawyer whose latest political effort is a poor recommendation...
Received a resolution from Senator Dill of Washington, which would instruct the officers of the Senate to refuse to accept the credentials of Senators-elect Smith of Illinois and Vare of Pennsylvania...
...said to have paid to the Premier of New Brunswick in 1918 in connection with a railroad deal. Senator Gould is the only Republican in the 69th Congress whose seat is in immediate danger, but the charges against him are more remote than those against Messrs. Smith and Vare...
...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...