Word: pinchot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Second there is Governor Pinchot. He has plenty of money. Last week he announced his candidacy. He is his own backer. He bucks the regular organization. He is dry and has the reform vote. He stands well with the Pennsylvania miners. He is a Progressive, and the Administration does not want...
...third is Representative William Scott Vare of Philadelphia, another millionaire. He announced his candidacy a day after Mr. Pinchot. He is variously known as the boss or leader of Philadelphia Republicanism. He announced himself as the "Wet Hope" of Pennsylvania. He will have the Republican machine with him, at least in the eastern part of the state. In the western part the Mellons may swing the organization for Pepper. But Vare hopes to take compensation out of Pinchot's vote. He declared: "I shall be opposed by two candidates who would maintain the extreme rigor of the Volstead law. Enforcement...
...against the dry Republicans; in New York because the drys are expected to put up a candidate against Senator Wadsworth, who is not dry enough to suit them; and in Pennsylvania, where Representative Vare, wet boss of the Philadelphia machine, is expected to run against Senator Pepper and Gifford Pinchot, both drys...
James J. Davis, Secretary of Labor, was frequently mentioned last week in Washington as a candidate for the governorship of Pennsylvania to succeed Gifford Pinchot. The Pennsylvania Senators, (Pepper and Reed) and Secretary of the Treasury Mellon are understood to be supporting him. Mrs. Mary Key McBlair, a retired Government clerk, 72 years of age, lives in Washington. She has a pension of $20, a month because of Government service. Last week Representative E. Hart Fenn of Connecticut introduced a bill to give her a pension of $1,200 a year, saying that she is in destitute circumstances. Mrs. McBlair...
...appeared in turn as the nun. They thought that Miss Patterson and Lady Diana brought the greatest spirituality to the part, that Miss Tree had not quite their ethereal innocence together with the sense of warm, alert youth that is required. Miss Patterson, like her debutante predecessor, Miss Rosamond Pinchot of Manhattan, enjoyed a special triumph; and the story went the rounds again of how she had made her social debut last year on condition that her parents let her become an actress another year...