Word: vare
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...obnoxious taxes on foreign trade and foreign capital, the holding of "fair elections," and provisions for a clean government, he will already have outstripped his model. By strict adherence to it, he can do no more than develop tariff battles, intervention policies, brass-knuckled good-will trips, Smith-Vare disbarments, and an oil scandal...
Revelations of intimacy between Philadelphia's underworld and its police force (TIME, Oct. 8) seemed to demand some official decapitations. Several police officers, obviously guilty, were removed, disgraced. Senator-suspect Vare, boss of the city, announced that the Director of Public Safety, Harry C. Davis, his friend for 40 years, was above it all, irreproachable. The grand jury hoped and trusted this was so, but continued its inquiry. Things were looking up for Director Davis. Nevertheless, one day last week, Mayor Harry Arista Mackey bustled into the mayoral office and, without pausing to remove his overcoat, dictated a letter...
...necessary for the People to choose 435 members (all) of the House of Representatives, and 36 out of the 96 members of the Senate. This the People apparently accomplished, as the Election did not bring forth any controversy such as surrounded the election of Pennsylvania's Vare in 1926. In doing so the People gave to President Hoover an unmistakably clear Republican majority in both House and Senate. During the Coolidge administration, the House has always been solidly Republican, but the Senate has teetered, owing to the fact that a bare Republican majority included half a dozen insurgents...
Thus, the 71st Senate may contain (barring death) 56 Republicans, 38 Democrats, as well as the lone Farmer-Laborite Henrik Shipstead of Minnesota, who was reelected. Also, one vacancy (Vare...
...dedication. Smart son of a smart father, and smart namesake of a smart granduncle, David A. Reed, 47, has many a distinction. He is a close friend of Andrew W. Mellon. He is, at the moment, both senior and junior U. S. Senator from Pennsylvania, because Philadelphia's Vare has not yet been admitted to the U. S. Senate...