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...when the U. S. Senate finally denies Senator-suspect William S. Vare of Pennsylvania his seat, alert, greyhaired, busy-buzzing Gifford Pinchot, onetime (1923-27) Governor of Pennsylvania, will try to fill the vacancy. And when the seat of Senator David A. Reed of Pennsylvania comes up for election in November, able, redhaired, social-working Mrs. Gifford Pinchot will try to fill that vacancy. So, at least, rumored one Jane Randolph, Capitol newsgatherer, last week...
...Ferreting into campaign funds in Pennsylvania Senator James A. Reed and his committee discovered that the W. C. T. U. had raised $250,000 for a "Governor's Enforcement Fund" after the Legislature had refused to vote money for Governor Gifford Pinchot to enforce Prohibition. The W. C. T. U. had an office in the State Capitol and paid for prosecutions brought in the name of Pennsylvania. National Anti-Saloon funds for assisting Prohibition enforcement from 1921 to 1925 were about $500,000 per annum-exclusive of millions raised by state Leagues. (TIME, July...
...list of the men who have received the scholarship as representatives of Harvard University and the year that they received it for the past 23 years is as follows: F. H. Fobes '04, 4904; C. H. Haring '07, 1907; W. C. Greene '11, 1911; G. H. Gifford '13, 1913; C. F. Hawkins '21, 1914; F. T. Smith '11, 1916; C. C. Brinton '19, 1919; W. C. Holbrook '20, 1920; W. J. Maier Jr. '22, 1922; Mason Hammond '25, 1925; W. I. Nichols...
Governor Fisher. The Labor conference had invited Governor John S. Fisher of Pennsylvania to come and address it on the subject of state-appointed coal-&-iron police. Governor Fisher declined. It was unfortunate for Governor Fisher that he had to decline because that gave one-time (1917-21) Governor Gifford Pinchot a chance to dwell on the subject in his stead. Mr. Pinchot is no political friend of his fellow-Republican, Governor Fisher...
...been potent this year.*A silent, motionless unmarketed Ford has helped their heyday. Characteristic was their method of passing them on to stockholders. "Extras" (bonuses), said the directors' statement, will be continued. The policy is contrary to that of some other mammoth U. S. corporations. Recently Walter Sherman Gifford, president of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co., frowned on "melons" (TIME, Oct. 31). "Put the extra money back into the business for expansion and development," was his explanation to his 420,000 disappointed stockholders...