For the first time since March 4, 1927, all 96 seats in the U. S. Senate were last week legally filled. Governor John S. Fisher of Pennsvlvania rounded out the roster by appointing Joseph R. Grundy of Bristol in place of William Scott Vare, rejected. The transformation of Mr. Grundy —"Old Joe" as he likes his friends to call him—from a tariff archlobbyist to a full-fledged Senator caused some of his more volatile colleagues to gag and splutter furiously. In the end, for all the uproar against him,...
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