Word: vare
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Wilson's authority to send troops to France. During his eleven months in the Senate, he has taken only an inconspicuous part in its affairs. A thoroughgoing Republican regular, he startled his Conservatives only when he broke with them to vote for the rejection of William Scott Vare of Pennsylvania...
...Pennsylvania Supreme Court last week cleared Gifford Pinchot's claim to the Republican gubernatorial nomination and thereby paved the way to a fierce political battle in the November election. In the G. O. Primary three months ago Mr. Pinchot won the nomination over Francis Shunk Brown, candidate of Boss Vare of Philadelphia, by a plurality of 20,099 votes (TIME, June 2). Mr. Brown, a poor loser, contended he had been "robbed" of the nomination, sought a technical lever to pry Mr. Pinchot off the top of the political pile. He found it in Luzerne county where...
...Nominee Pinchot had other and larger troubles lying ahead of him last week. A militant Dry, he will oppose Democratic .Nominee John M. Hemphill, militant Wet, in the November election. Normally a Democrat's chances in Penn's Woods are negligible. This year, however, Boss Vare's Philadelphia G. O. P., smarting under its primary defeat and nursing old grudges, is reported ready to ditch Nominee Pinchot and support Nominee Hemphill sufficiently to bring him within striking distance of Harrisburg...
...Boss Vare has four reasons for politically execrating Nominee Pinchot: 1) as Governor in 1926, Mr. Pinchot gave him a "certificate of doubt" instead of a certificate of election to the U. S. Senate; 2) Nominee Pinchot is Dry and Philadelphia is Wet; 3) Nominee Pinchot wars on public utilities and railroads supported by the Vare organization; 4) Nominee Pinchot is a type of person very different from Boss Vare...
...headed by Secretary of Labor Davis. The Senate virtually set a campaign expenditure limit of $195,000 in the case of Michigan's Newberry (1922). Senator Caraway jibed that if Mrs. McCormick and Mr. Davis were elected and seated, the Senate would owe an apology to William Scott Vare and Frank Leslie Smith, Pennsylvania's and Illinois' famed Senators-reject...