Word: pinchots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Missourian Reed also noted an expenditure of $16 for water at the Pinchot headquarters and solemnly demanded to know if that item was not padded...
Because Governor Pinchot had requested investigation, he was the first to be examined. His wife and his aunt (Mrs. Charles B. Wood) were in the committee room when the Governor sank his tall, lean frame into the witness chair, turned a saddened eye on Senator Reed, recalled the expenditure of $43,000 of his own personal money on the campaign...
...wife had contributed $40,000, his aunt $50,000, a college friend $11,000, his brother Amos $11,000. The grand total might be $195,000. That equals the amount for which Mr. Newberry of Michigan was "severely condemned and disapproved" by a previous investigating committee. However, Mr. Pinchot's Pennsylvania has more than twice the population of Michigan, hence the per capita amount was less...
With tilted cigar in one corner of his mouth, Senator Reed relishingly continued the grill. He spent much time seeking for traces of Anti-Saloon League complicity, but Mr. Pinchot said that there was no use, since the League had thown him over and followed Senator Pepper as the better bet," although Pinchot was the bone-dry candidate. Senator Reed observed: "They could be happy with either if the other dear charmer were away...
...there's no such item on Vare's expense," he remarked. Pinchot witnesses testified that the Pepper committee assigned an average of 25 "watchers"* and the Vare committee an average of 10 "watchers" to each election district, paying them $10 each, the aggregate outlay for that purpose alone calculated at half a million dollars. It was also charged that there had been "juggling" in the counting of ballots in certain districts...