A brown horse and a red-haired woman caused commotion in the streets of Philadelphia last week. Beauteous, impulsive Mrs. Gifford Pinchot, wife of Pennsylvania's Governor, gayly trotted through City Hall Plaza traffic in a jingling silvery sleigh on rollers. Mounted on the shafts were signs urging PINCHOT FOR SENATOR. Overhead fluttered a banner with this strange device: VOTERSDON'T LET REED TAKE YOU FOR ANOTHER SLEIGH RIDEVOTE FOR PINCHOT. "It's awfully silly," the Governor's ebullient lady confided, "but it makes a good picture." Political tricks and stratagems far craftier than this were going...
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