Word: peppered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...
That the result can be understood as a vote of lack of confidence in the Coolidge faction which Senator Pepper represented is perhaps dubitable. Although the Secretary of the Treasury backed the Senator, Mr. Coolidge held off his official support until the last moment. The insurgent Republicans have never been strong in the Keystone State and whatever reaction exists can probably be interpreted as the traditional mid-term anti-administration threat...
Pennsylvania. The fourth primary of the season takes place in Pennsylvania next week, and, it being Pennsylvania, the chief interest is in the Republican choice. There are three candidates. Senator Pepper, running for renomination, is backed by the Mellons and the organization of the western part of the state. Cyrus E. Woods, former Ambassador, is managing Mr. Pepper's campaign. He is Dry and his issue is support of the Administration. The second candidate is Governor Pinchot, fighting for nomination on the ground that he is Dryer than Pepper. He has a good bit of the church vote...
That conversation, the intellectual salt and pepper of thought, has of late become stereotyped, is a charge often repeated. Business and bridge are the talk of the town, even that section which has had the advantage of a college training. In the current Harper's, Albert Nock, one-time editor of the uncompromising and now deceased Freeman, brings this plaint again into prominence. The stock market has over cast music. Work and Whitehead flourish in place of politics as topics of conversation...
Pinchot v. Pepper v. Vare for the Republican nomination for Senator from Pennsylvania heads the list of spring political battles. Pinchot has the most ideas - some of them considered a little loose. Pepper has the most dignity - now and again a little heavy. Both Pinchot and Pepper are considered much more respectable than Vare, but Boss Vare is credited with knowing most about how votes are got into ballot boxes. Pinchot is conceded to be the hardest fighter. Last week he let out as follows: "I charge that perjury and forgery are now added to ballot-box stuffing, falsification...