Word: vare
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
...Pennsylvania, William Bauchop Wilson, Democrat, accomplished the lesser half of a political revolution by entering Philadelphia with a lead of 2,500. But the historic Philadelphia Republican machine swung the election to William S. Vare by some 230,000 votes. Mr. Wilson had carried 55 counties; Mr. Vare...
...that Frank L. Smith of Illinois and William S. Vare of Pennsylvania have been elected to the Senate, it remains for upright Senators to find a way to oust them. Morally and, politically the case against them is good. Their primary slush was enough to make onetime (1919-22) Senator Truman H. Newberry look like a deacon. Their taint gave Democrats and Insurgents an issue, embarrassed even the most regular Republicans. A substantial majority of the next Senate will find it politically wise to unseat them. But Mr. Smith and Mr. Vare have raised the question as to whether...
Last week Senator William E. Borah, mighty Republican from Idaho, was quick to answer them, to announce that he would fight to oust them. He, no mean constitutional lawyer, believed the Senate has the right to oust Messrs. Smith and Vare, a right which he likened to the right of self-preservation...
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...