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...Pennsylvania Supreme Court last week cleared Gifford Pinchot's claim to the Republican gubernatorial nomination and thereby paved the way to a fierce political battle in the November election. In the G. O. Primary three months ago Mr. Pinchot won the nomination over Francis Shunk Brown, candidate of Boss Vare of Philadelphia, by a plurality of 20,099 votes (TIME, June 2). Mr. Brown, a poor loser, contended he had been "robbed" of the nomination, sought a technical lever to pry Mr. Pinchot off the top of the political pile. He found it in Luzerne county where...
...headed by Secretary of Labor Davis. The Senate virtually set a campaign expenditure limit of $195,000 in the case of Michigan's Newberry (1922). Senator Caraway jibed that if Mrs. McCormick and Mr. Davis were elected and seated, the Senate would owe an apology to William Scott Vare and Frank Leslie Smith, Pennsylvania's and Illinois' famed Senators-reject...
...Denied William Scott Vare of Pennsylvania a seat in the Senate...
...Governor controls State patronage on which political machines subsist, whereas a Senator only ornaments and dignifies the group that puts him into office. No man may call himself State Boss unless he has the No. 1 official at Harrisburg under his thumb. In an attempt to become Boss, Mr. Vare, overlord of Philadelphia, put up Francis Shunk Brown for Governor, his chief attorney in his futile fight for a Senate seat (TIME, Dec. 16). As a matter of political convenience, Secretary of Labor James John ("Puddler Jim") Davis was added to the Vare ticket as the senatorial candidate...
Opposed to Secretary Davis was Senator Grundy, high tariff advocate, seeking to retain the seat to which Governor Fisher had appointed him after the Vare rejection. Gifford Pinchot, onetime (1923-27) Governor, crusading Dry, ran as a rural independent against Mr. Brown for the gubernatorial nomination. The Mellon faction in Pittsburgh supported Messrs. Brown and Grundy. An informal Pinchot-Grundy alliance existed to combat the Vare ticket...