Word: giffords
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...field of 16, Republicans chose William Abraham Schnader, State's Attorney General, as their favorite gubernatorial candidate. In the hottest primary contest, Senator David Aiken Reed, Old Guardsman seeking renomination, beat (587,000-to-483,000) Governor Gifford Pinchot, oldtime Republican insurgent...
That President Roosevelt would have been justified in accepting a Pinchot victory as a compliment to himself and his Administration, not even the staunchest Democrat could honestly deny. But the fact that Gifford Pinchot chose to identify, for lack of a more dramatic tag, his liberal politics with the New Deal did not alter the fact that he was still a Republican. The friendly bread-breaking with Governor Pinchot at the White House cost the President nothing. It is part of the Presidential policy to remain on good terms with Republicans of the Norris-Cutting-Johnson-Pinchot stamp, while always...
Four more ladies have been added to the list of patronesses; Mrs. Gaspar G. Bacon, Mrs. William L. Putnam, Mrs. Gifford K. Simmons, and Mrs. Dorothy Whipple
...opportunity to express yourselves on the question of planned economy. Had these features been in the Democratic platform of 1932, that party would not have carried one state in the Union." In aiming at the Democrats in a Republican primary, Candidate Reed assumed that he was also shooting at Gifford Pinchot, whose exact political position lies camouflaged somewhere East of Democracy and West of the G. O. P. Nobody in Pennsylvania has ever succeeded in orienting the Pinchots. They have been borderland cases for years. Governor Pinchot's old Pennsylvanian family comes from Milford, across the Delaware from Port...
...When Ladies Meet) has for 15 years been kept with quiet dignity by a small and practical Baltimorean (Mr. Truex). Because of her propensity for bestowing her latchkey on attractive strangers ("It's so hard to know what to give a man"), the lady snares dissolute Nathan Gifford (Eliot Cabot). Unhappily, the lady's daughter, fresh from a French convent, decides to get Mr. Gifford for herself. She does. Her mother seeks temporary solace in the familiar arms of her longtime protector...