Word: mellons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pennsylvania walked before them?Senator, Governor and Representative?examining tentatively their gifts, and holding in her hands behind her back the award of the Republican nomination to the Senate. Then, laughingly, she tossed the golden apple to Mr. Vare. All in vain was it that Secretary Mellon had gone back to Pittsburgh, crying: "Pennsylvania never had a more faithful public official nor one who has more clearly earned renomination"?Mr. Pepper polled only 485,000 votes...
...Drys claim that it was because the Dry vote was split that Mr. Vare won. But their argument is not convincing. Undoubtedly many votes in the Pittsburgh region which the Mellon organization swung to Pepper, would on a pure Wet and Dry issue have been Wet. And it is even likely that Mr. Pinchot got some normally Wet votes among the miners. The factors which tend to emphasize the Wetness of Vare's victory are that in Philadelphia 14 of the 15 silk-stocking wards, which ordinarily the local machine is sure to find opposing it, turned round and voted...
...Harrison: "To paraphrase a legal term, may I say, 'One who comes into court must come with clean hands.' But in Mellon he has a friend who knows how to sue. My friend from Michigan [Mr. Couzens] will agree to that...
Representative Vare, who comes from the City of Brotherly Love, where politicians cannot afford to be brothers, has decisively defeated George Wharton Pepper and Gifford Pinchot for the Republican nomination for Senator from Pennsylvania. Mr. Pepper was commonly considered to be the Coolidge candidate, being backed heavily by the Mellon interests, and Mr. Pinchot in the gubernatorial chair in Harrisburg had enjoyed four years of unbroken popularity, especially with the miners of the western part of the state. The Democratic nominee is still to be considered, even in Pennsylvania, but Senator Pepper and Governor Pinchot seem headed for the sticks...
...What fashionable painter's portrait of Andrew Mellon was hung last week...