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...week Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, U. S. M. C. retired, announced that a petition was being circulated to put his name in the April primaries in Pennsylvania as a candidate for the Republican Senatorial Nomination. His candidacy again drew the sharp line which separates the Out-&-Out-Dry-Pinchot Republican machine from the Wet Philadelphia organization commanded by Boss William Scott Vare. General Butler's chief opponent for the nomination (which is virtually as good as an election) will be Senator James John ("Puddler Jim") Davis, who recently switched from Dry to Wet to hold the support...
...Clarks Ferry bridge (over the Susquehanna River). From time to time wheezy motors gave out. Once the bread trucks were hours behind time, but somehow they kept on going. Troopers patrolling the march discreetly looked the other way when they saw a 1931 automobile license in the line. Governor Pinchot had ordered the stringent State law relaxed for the occasion...
...Pinchot v. McFadden...
Between President Hoover and Governor Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania exists a hearty hostility. Mrs. Hoover and Mrs. Pinchot do not speak when they pass each other on Washington's streets. Yet last week the unusual spectacle was presented of Mrs. Pinchot leaping to political arms in defense of President Hoover...
Moratorium last fortnight (TIME, Dec. 28) kindled indignation no less hot in his own 15th Pennsylvania District than elsewhere. While Postmaster General Brown in Washington was announcing that he would no longer "invite nor follow suggestions" from Congressman McFadden on local patronage, Mrs. Pinchot, whose Milford home is in the rural 15th, was announcing that she would attempt to wrest the McFadden seat in the House away from its present plump occupant. In the April primaries she would be a candidate for the Republican Congressional nomination. Long ambitious to sit in the House, she unhesitatingly seized the McFadden outburst...