Word: vares
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...peeping up the chimney for Santa Claus. The figure whom the Hooverites first saw in the chimney, and whom a nettled press credited with being the real though surprising Santa Claus, was not the frosted patrician, the supposedly all-potent Secretary Mellon. It was sooty and corpulent William S. Vare, the Philadelphia boss whom the U. S. Senate has suspected of, and rejected for, corruption...
Senator-suspect Vare, on the other hand, strutted down the station platform with his nose turned up even higher than usual, ready for business. A newsman asked him where Mr. Vare...
...Senator Vare," replied the Senator-suspect...
...after Mr. Vare heard that Secretary Mellon was still temporizing, that his red face flushed with impatience and importance. He issued a statement of his own which said: "The Republicans of Pennsylvania, in my judgment, are for Herbert Hoover...
Sole Democratic organ in a Vare-ridden city, the Philadelphia Record last week passed from the control of the Wanamaker family into the capable hands of Editor-Publisher J. David Stern, owner of the Evening Courier and the Morning Post of Camden, N. J., 42-year-old veteran of newspaper battles from Seattle, Wash., to Providence, R. I. Like the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (see above), the Record goes to a local boy. "New ownership," observed Mr. Stern, briefly, "implies no change in editorial policy...