Pinchot v. McFadden

POLITICAL NOTE

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.

Representative Louis T. McFadden's bitter attack on President Hoover and the

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 as a springboard for her campaign. Said she: "Every one must resent an unsubstantiated accusation of treason against the President." No idle threat against Congressman McFadden was Mrs. Pinchot's candidacy. Great-granddaughter of the late great Peter Cooper, Manhattan philanthropist and manufacturer of the first U. S. steam locomotive,* daughter of the late Congressman, editor and diplomat, Lloyd Stephens Bryce, auburn-haired Cornelia Pinchot is a consummate politician. Bluntspoken, quick-witted, shrewd, she is quite the peer of her husband on the stump. Outdoorish in her interests, she has landscaped the Pinchot estate, holds a permit to carry a gun (kidnapping threats have been made against her only son, Gifford Jr., 16), goes exploring in khaki shorts. In 1928 she ran against Congressman McFadden, lost the Republican nomination by 2,000 votes. This year she counts on his misbehavior in the House to help bring her victory. Her intelligence and capability would be considerably above the average of the other six women now in the House.

*''The ''Tom Thumb" for the Baltimore & Ohio.

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