Word: pinchot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vain was it that Mr. Pinchot rallied' the church forces to his side and called to his coal miner friends?they cast but 320,000 votes for him. Mr. Vare, secure in his control of the Philadelphia machine and failing to gain a majority in most of the rest of the state, yet gathered with the single cry of "Beer" about 90,000 votes more than Mr. Pepper, almost 255,000 votes more than Mr. Pinchot...
...Significance. Representative Vare is the boss of Philadelphia politics. Without his great majority in his own city he could not have won. As it was, he did not have a majority of the 1,400,000 votes cast. If Mr. Pinchot, the ardent Dry, had not decided to enter the field as a third, it is most unlikely that Vare would have won. So, fundamentally, it was the act of a Dry which nominated...
...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 for Mr. Vare, and that...
...Future. Normally a Republican nomination in Pennsylvania is as good as an election. This time there is, however, the possibility that Pinchot will bolt the Republican ticket either to run as an independent or to join forces with the Democrats who nominated William B. Wilson (Secretary of Labor under the President of the same surname). In any event it will take an heroic effort if a Republican nominee is to be beaten in Pennsylvania...
...however, despair of attaining post-graduate eminence. Let them consider the following college graduates who are not Keymen: Franklin D. Roosevelt, William Randolph Hearst, J. Pierpont Morgan, Clarence Dillon, Sinclair Lewis, John Hays Hammond Jr., Arthur Curtiss James, William Allen White, Henry Fairfield Osborn, Albert C. Ritchie, Gifford Pinchot, Robert LaFollette,- Edwin Arlington Robinson...