Word: vares
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Engaged. Glenna Collett, 27, five-time (1922, 1925, 1928, 1929, 1930) U. S. women's golf champion (a record), one-time (1925) winner of the French championship; and Edwin H. Vare Jr. of Philadelphia, construction engineer, golfer, son of the late State Senator Edwin H. Vare, nephew of U. S. Senator-reject William Scott ("Boss") Vare...
Pennsylvania. "Wholehearted" was perhaps not the word for the support which the Mellons gave Gifford Pinchot, though it accurately described the non-support he got from Philadelphia's Boss Vare and Railroader William Wallace Atterbury. For weeks it had seemed that John M. Hemphill, a Democrat-"Liberal" with Beer, Business and a little black toothbrush on his lips, would be the anointed one and make Pennsylvania history. Yet when Allegheny County's (the Mellons') votes were counted, there were 70,000 extra for Pinchot?the backlog of his 50,000 statewide majority?and Theodore Roosevelt's forester was returned...
Confidently awaited last week was a statement from Philadelphia's Boss William Scott Vare repudiating the Pinchot candidacy...
Gifford Pinchot, Republican nominee for Governor of Pennsylvania, last week lost a large chunk of political support but none of his oldtime Rooseveltian capacity for denunciation. Charles B. Hall and Samuel Salus, potent members of the Philadelphia G. O. P. machine under Boss William Scott Vare, repudiated him to support John M. Hemphill, the Democratic Nominee. Mr. Pinchot exploded: "They're gangsters first and Republicans as a matter of convenience afterwards. . . . Hall . . . stands for everything decent voters despise and hate. His support is always a liability...
Three sound explanations existed for this Republican breach which seriously unsettled the certainty that Pennsylvania, as it has done for the last 39 years, would elect a Republican governor in November. They were: 1) longstanding hostility be tween Nominee Pinchot and Boss Vare, whose candidate for governor Mr. Pincho' defeated in the primary; 2) the Wet appeal of Nominee Hemphill in Republican urban districts; 3) the apprehension of Big Business at Nominee Pinchot's "radical" program of industrial and utility regulation...