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Such alumni pointed to Girard Trustee Francis Shunk Brown, an attorney who has often friended Pennsylvania's U. S. Senator-suspect William Scott Vare, and to Albert M. Greenfield, a realtor recently elected to the Board of Trustees. Realtor Greenfield has been a large contributor to Vare election funds. Trustees of Girard are elected by the Judges of the Common Pleas Court, whom Senator-suspect Vare reputedly controls. If the Judges should have occasion to elect more Vare men to be Girard trustees, what, wondered the alarmed alumni, might happen to the huge Girard endowment...
...Girard trustees like Lawyer Owen Josephus Roberts, whom President Coolidge chose as special Federal prosecutor in the Oil Scandals (TIME, Feb. 25, 1924), and William H. Kingsley, a Girard alumnus. They felt sure that trustees like these would keep intact the Girard endowment, even supposing that Senator-suspect Vare might be covetous, which seemed to them impractical if not incredible...
...Adopted a resolution to pay Senator-suspect Vare of Pennsylvania $15,907.38 as his expenses in the contest of his election. This resolution in no way altered Mr. Vare's status as a Senator-suspect...
...Senator Harrison filibustered the Reapportionment Bill to death. C. Senator Reed (Pennsylvania) was ready to filibuster again against action on the case of his colleague-suspect, William S. Vare...
...remained to listen. The Senators had decided among themselves to give Boss Vare another hearing when he gets well?which he doubtless will do soon after Missouri's Reed's term expires on March...