Word: pinchot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Nebraska Republicans renominated Senator Norris handsomely over Mr. Stebbins. Senator Norris' campaign cost $2,620. Contributors: $200 from himself, $1,000 from Republican Senator Bronson Cutting of New Mexico; $1,000 from Mrs. Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania; $500 from Judson King, Washington liberal. In the November election Senator Norris, a Dry, will face Gilbert Monell Hitchcock, Wet conservative Democrat, once (1911-23) potent Senator from Nebraska who vainly led the Wilson fight for Senate ratification of the Treaty of Versailles. Would the national G.O. P. organization in Washington support Senator Norris as the party nominee? Senator Simeon...
...only outstanding nomination that might be construed as a dry victory is the majority secured by Mr. Pinchot in Pennsylvania. But here even the candidate who is an ardent dry attributes his victory to a desire for clean government rather than enforcement of the Prohibition Amendment. Nearly every reputable indication of public feeling has been against the anti-alcohol laws. It does not take an interpreter to read the writing that is becoming more and more distinct on the American political wall. Whether or not it is here to stay, Prohibition is certainly the biggest political issue in this country...
Opposed to Secretary Davis was Senator Grundy, high tariff advocate, seeking to retain the seat to which Governor Fisher had appointed him after the Vare rejection. Gifford Pinchot, onetime (1923-27) Governor, crusading Dry, ran as a rural independent against Mr. Brown for the gubernatorial nomination. The Mellon faction in Pittsburgh supported Messrs. Brown and Grundy. An informal Pinchot-Grundy alliance existed to combat the Vare ticket...
...Pinchot, to the surprise of all, pulled up from behind to beat Mr. Brown for the gubernatorial nomination by some 17,000 votes. At midnight Mr. Brown saw his lead wilting as the rural vote for Mr. Pinchot piled up. Depressed, he went home to bed, remarked: "When I get up in the morning, I'll feel better." But in the morning he felt worse. Mr. Pinchot's vote had passed his while he slept. Heartbroken, he refused to concede defeat even when the Pinchot forces were celebrating their victory...
Weasling on Prohibition cost Mr. Brown the nomination. Mr. Phillips of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment rolled up 275,000 votes (as a Wet candidate four years ago he got 72,000 votes). Hoping to win both Wets and Drys, Mr. Brown straddled. Partisan Drys voted for Mr. Pinchot, partisan Wets for Mr. Phillips...