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...names of many of the 50 pilgrims to her doors had a familiar ring, for they were names spoken in the White House a score of years ago, such names as Straus, Murray, Fish. But the number of missing names was a reminder of how completely times had changed. Gifford Pinchot, the young forester whom President Roosevelt supported so ardently in his struggle for conservation of forests, is now fighting other battles single-handedly in Pennsylvania. Henry Cabot Lodge, Roosevelt's close friend, has but recently gone to his grave. Senator Beveridge is no longer Senator, but hopes...
...Douglas, Minneapolis lawyer; Joseph R. Ensign, Simsbury, Conn., manufacturer; Samuel H. Fisher, Manhattan lawyer; John R. Galt, Hawaiian banker; Edward J. Gavegan, New York Supreme Court Judge; Robert L. Luce, Manhattan lawyer; Edward L. Parsons, San Francisco bishop; Charles C. Paulding, Manhattan railroad lawyer and nephew of Mr. Depew; Gifford Pinchot, Pennsylvania Governor; Robert Treat Platt, Portland (Ore.) lawyer; James Gamble Rogers, Manhattan architect; Charles H. Sherrill, Manhattan lawyer; George W. Woodruff, Pennsylvania Attorney General...
...Governor Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania last week came forward with definite proposals for ending the anthracite coal strike. He invited the miners and operators to meet him at Harrisburg. The miners went, but the operators sent word that they could not get their committee together on such brief notice. So the operators did not attend...
...Gifford Pinchot, Governor of Pennsylvania, last week called to consult with him John L. Lewis, President of the United Mine Workers of America, and soon afterwards Major W. W. Inglis, representative of the anthracite mine operators. There was no secret about why he wanted to see them. He wanted to end the anthracite strike which has endured since Sept. 1. What actually passed was indeed secret. Apparently the miners were not willing to give up their demand for higher wages and the checkoff, nor were the operators willing to yield either of these points. When his visitors had gone, Governor...
...remarkable career to this point and, although he is now 60, he may or may not have a yet more remarkable career ahead of him. He comes of French stock. His grandfather, Constantino Cyril Desiré Pinchot, quit France "because of political beliefs. . . ." Gifford, born in Connecticut in 1865, went to Phillips Exeter Academy and to Yale College, where he was graduated in 1889. Out of college he went to France, studied forestry at Nancy, practiced it in the Alps and the Vosges. By 1891 he was back and doing "the first systematic forestry work ever done...