Word: vares
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Denied William Scott Vare of Pennsylvania a seat in the Senate...
...primary polls last week to deal a new hand all around in State politics. Within twelve hours they had retired Senator Joseph Ridgway ("Old Joe") Grundy to his Bristol yarn mills, created a vacancy in President Hoover's Cabinet, smashed the hopes of Senator-reject William Scott Vare of becoming G. O. P. boss of the State, registered their opinion on Prohibition, recalled to high office one of their ablest and most distinguished citizens...
...Governor controls State patronage on which political machines subsist, whereas a Senator only ornaments and dignifies the group that puts him into office. No man may call himself State Boss unless he has the No. 1 official at Harrisburg under his thumb. In an attempt to become Boss, Mr. Vare, overlord of Philadelphia, put up Francis Shunk Brown for Governor, his chief attorney in his futile fight for a Senate seat (TIME, Dec. 16). As a matter of political convenience, Secretary of Labor James John ("Puddler Jim") Davis was added to the Vare ticket as the senatorial candidate...
Opposed to Secretary Davis was Senator Grundy, high tariff advocate, seeking to retain the seat to which Governor Fisher had appointed him after the Vare rejection. Gifford Pinchot, onetime (1923-27) Governor, crusading Dry, ran as a rural independent against Mr. Brown for the gubernatorial nomination. The Mellon faction in Pittsburgh supported Messrs. Brown and Grundy. An informal Pinchot-Grundy alliance existed to combat the Vare ticket...
...Senate seated but severely condemned Truman Newberry for spending $195,000 in Michigan in 1918 to beat Henry Ford. After the 1926 primaries it ousted Frank Leslie Smith of Illinois for spending $458,792 (a large part of which came from Public Utilitarian Samuel Insull) and William Scott Vare of Pennsylvania for spending...