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...State dining room plump Mrs. Clayton Douglass Buck was on the President's right because her husky husband runs Delaware, first State to ratify the Constitution. On the President's left in golden spangles, gold shoes and jade earrings was sharp, smart, colorful Mrs. Gifford Pinchot who had just been defeated for Congress in Pennsylvania (see p. 15). On leaving the White House, Governor Roosevelt, always jovial with the Press, when asked what he had discussed with President Hoover, said: "One may not talk when leaving the White House. I've been there before." Governor Pinchot...
Into every crack & corner of Pennsylvania went Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, U. S. M. C. (retired), campaigning for the Republican senatorial nomination. A Dry, he was endorsed by Governor Gifford Pinchot. He made 126 speeches (preceded, he said, by 126 silent prayers). But neither speeches nor prayers availed him. Senator James John ("Puddler Jim") Davis, a Wet supported by Boss Vare's Philadelphia machine, last week won renomination by a 350,000-vote majority...
Shortly after Congressman Louis T. McFadden of the 13th Pennsylvania District had accused President Hoover of treason on the War Debts last winter, Mrs. Cornelia Bryce Pinchot, the Governor's wife and no political friend of the President, announced her Republican candidacy for the House from Mr. McFadden's district. Last week 15th District voters renominated Mr. McFadden who returned to the House to receive an ovation from his colleagues...
Following a conference with Governor Pinchot's secretary at the Butler home in Newtown Square, "Old Gimlet Eye" let out his first war whoop...
...spell it out in capital letters. DRY. . . . There will be two weeks' work on my lecture tour to be completed. In the interval there will be little campaigning done. After that there will be plenty. . . . The baby was just born. It is a Pinchot-Marine Corps baby...