Word: vares
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. William Scott Vare, 66, merchant, onetime Congressman from Pennsylvania (1912-27) and later its famed Senator-reject, longtime boss of Philadelphia's Republican machine; of a heart attack; in Atlantic City. Elected to the Senate in 1926, he was refused his seat because of excessive primary expenditures ($785,000). His grip on the Philadelphia machine was broken in last May's primaries...
Born, To Edwin H. Vare, Jr., 38, nephew of onetime Philadelphia Republican Boss William Scott Vare, and Mrs. Glenna Collett Vare. 31, five-time U. S. women's golf champion: a son; their second child; in Philadelphia...
...Pittsburgh, for Governor; pugilistic Eddie McCloskey, Mayor of Johnstown, for Secretary of Internal Affairs. So badly disorganized was the Republican State Committee that it failed to back anyone's candidacy for the governorship. Chief contender appeared to be Attorney General William A. Schnader, endorsed by the Mellon-Vare machine. His motto: "I refuse to sell you a gold brick." Among the rash of twelve other Republican candidates, most promising was Lieut. Governor Edward C. Shannon, a conservative out-state farmer with veteran backing. For Senator, Joseph Guffey, Democratic boss of the state, was whooping up his own candidacy...
...Deal, as represented by the Citizens-Fusion ticket put forth by the National Youth Movement. Founded a year ago by a small group of young, public-spirited citizens, the National Youth Movement aimed to depose the Pendergast machine as Tammany had been deposed in New York and the Vare machine in Philadelphia...
Clevelanders who had impulsively planted the seeds of Reform and had then left the fruit to be choked by the weeds of oldtime political organization, Philadelphians who had just succeeded in throwing a small monkey-wrench into the long-lived Vare machine, New Yorkers who were putting their second Fusion government in 20 years into the City Hall, could benefit by looking to well-governed Cincinnati for a lesson. The lesson was fresh from the presses in highly readable book form, City Management: The Cincinnati Experiment - by a bright young man who had associated himself with the movement from...