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...Lawyer Fine had hung out his shingle in Wilkes-Barre, had enlisted and gone overseas in the A.E.F., studied at Dublin's Trinity College and come home again to Republican county politics. That year, T.R.'s ally, lean, aristocratic Gifford Pinchot, decided to run for governor of Pennsylvania. The great fighter for "conservation" against the heedless exploitation of the "robber barons" was Fine's political hero. Fine became Pinchot's state campaign manager...
Enter the P.M.A. Pinchot was a "liberal" and a "reformer," but the words in his day did not carry quite the same meaning as they do today. Throughout his political career, Pinchot's strongest ally was Joe Grundy, owner of a Bristol, Pa., textile plant, who founded the Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Association. Grundy was a new kind of political boss. To Cameron and Quay the money to be made in politics was an incidental increment of political power; to Penrose money was just a means to political ends. But Grundy & friends were primarily businessmen, interested in politics...
...hear about Paul Douglas. Along with an unknown "caseless" Chicago lawyer named Harold Ickes, he launched the first protest campaign against the shabby stock manipulations of Utilitycoon Samuel Insull. Governor Franklin Roosevelt borrowed Douglas to work on New York State unemployment problems; so did Pennsylvania's Governor Gifford Pinchot. Douglas drafted old-age pension and unemployment-insurance laws for Illinois, worked out the state utilities regulation act. He was a chairman of the board of arbiters for the newspaper industry, made such even-handed rulings that only two of his 40 decisions were ever challenged. He appeared before congressional...
...onetime mayor of Pittsburgh (1933-36), whose unstatesmanlike didos made a circus of municipal affairs; of a heart attack; in St. Louis. McNair once dismissed all violators of the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Act ("They had committed no crime," he said, "except competing in the rotten liquor business with Governor Pinchot"), failed in a Cromwellian move to dissolve a newly elected city council, resigned in a huff when the council balked at confirming his appointees...
...Plan. Cord Meyer is the son of a wealthy New York real estate man and onetime diplomat. Before World War II, he was a top honor student at Yale and editor of the Yale Lit. After he was wounded and sent home from the Pacific, he married Mary Pinchot, the comely niece of Pennsylvania's late Governor Gifford Pinchot. He had got started on his crusade when he served as "veteran aide" to Delegate Harold Stassen at the San Francisco Conference. There he saw the United Nations born. He deplored the veto, which left U.N. virtually powerless to prevent...