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...Vare's seat was further with in the room. He walked in and sat upon it like an ostler at his master's wedding, awkward but proud, mortified but grinning, sheepish without shame. There was much in store for him to endure ? the prodding of Mississippi's Harrison, the cold twitting of Nebraska's Norris, the rabbit-punching of Missouri's Reed. The lat ter chewed softly on his cigar, glancing only now and again across the aisle where sat the other Reed, haggard but urbane, threatening to fili buster for his colleague...
After the prayer, roll call. Then Illinois got as far as the aisle. Mr. Vare did not even attempt to rise. By prearrangement Senator Norris, the parliamentary philosopher, voiced the objections of Insurgents and Democrats. The suspects "stood aside." In a perfunctory bark, Vice President Dawes declared the Seventieth Senate adjourned...
...they have been reduced to a margin of one in the Senate, where the fighting will take place. This margin, however, is fictional, for the six insurgents Senators from the Northwest will only vote with the party when it suits their particular interests. In addition to this, Smith and Vare are to be denied their seats for some months pending investigation of charges of corrupt practices, in spite of the fact that the alleged illegalities took place in the primaries and that with these charges known they have been elected by the people of their states...
...stag affair. Mrs. Coolidge was not present. Within the heavy portals of the Union League Club, some of the faces the President saw, the hands he shook, belonged to Governor John S. Fisher (see p. 11), Mayor W. Freeland Kendrick of Philadelphia, Senator-Elect William S. Vare and onetime (1922-27) Senator George Wharton Pepper, Chief Justice Robert von Moschzisker of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, Railroad Presidents William Wallace Atterbury (Pennsylvania), Daniel Willard (Baltimore & Ohio), Patrick Edward Crowley (New York Central), Edward Loomis (Lehigh Valley) ; also Samuel Rea, onetime (1913-25) President of the Pennsylvania R. R., Lawyer Owen...
Pennsylvania. Senator-elect William S. Vare was "vindicated" of allegedly purchasing his disputed Senate seat when Philadelphia elected the Vare-backed G. O. P. candidate, Harry A. Mackey, for mayor, over J. Hampton Moore, Independent G. 0. P. man. All other Vare candidates won, including onetime (1921-25) U. S. Solicitor General James M. Beck, now U. S. Representative-elect Beck. ... In Reading, the Socialist Party swept the board. Tax reform was the issue. It was the most notable uprising of the kind since Milwaukee went Socialist in 1910. Of some 26,000 votes cast, Socialist J. Henry Stump, running...