Word: pinchots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Falls, Pa., president of the Pennsylvania W. C. T. U., an ingenuous, grandmotherly person with a quick smile and cheerful voice, readily took the stand and answered the Senator's questions. "Oh, yes," she said brightly, "the ladies of the W. C. T. U. had stumped for Governor Pinchot willingly at $5 per day, paid by him. They had written the voters letters about his splendid Dry record. They had drummed up money at church meetings and by speeches...
...bureau" had been established headed by Attorney General Woodruff and Banker Charles G. Rhodes (Philadelphia) to handle funds. Governor Pinchot had appointed these two, as he later appointed other officials in the bureau, after conferring with Mrs. George...
...Governor Pinchot had appointed two Deputy Attorneys General, one William B. Wright at $5,000 and one Louis E. Graham at $6,000, whose salaries came out of the funds handled by the bureau chiefs...
Totals. The campaign committees filed their expenditures as required by law in Pennsylvania, and showed approximately $1,620,000 spent for the Pepper ticket, $670,000 spent for the Vare ticket and $195,000 spent for Pinchot...
When the Committee had ferreted through the accounts of Pinchot and Pepper, they examined the winning candidate's records and found that Vare, the light-wine and beer man, had spent upwards of $500,000, much of it in cash. Edward M. Kenna of Pittsburgh, of the Vare western headquarters, Allegheny County Treasurer for six years (at $6,500 a year), admitted after being pressed by Senator Reed, that he had contributed $20,000 of his own cash outright. Others in the Pittsburgh district donated amounts totaling...