Word: pinchot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shop," for which the N. M. A. has been fighting for years. Yet there were many interesting side issues, such as sympathy for Japan for the recent earthquake, and regret at the tone of Congress' recent stand on Japanese immigration. Apart from a general condemnation of "politicians", Gifford Pinchot was especially attacked as "not the only political coward in the country" and the chief reason for the high price of anthracite coal...
...Fifth Annual Convention of the National League of Women Voters, in Buffalo. Governor Pinchot of Pennsylvania, Governor Ritchie of Maryland, William Allen White of Kansas and prominent characters ad dressed the meeting. Afterwards followed passage of resolutions. Entrance into the World Court, another disarmament conference, uniform State marriage and divorce laws, shorter working hours for women, passage of a child labor Amendment to the Constitution, sterilization of the unfit, law enforcement, were among measures recommended. Birth control failed of endorsement by an adverse vote of two to one, but was recommended for study by state organizations. Miss Belle Sherwin ('daughter...
...Gifford Pinchot, wife of Pennsylvania's famed Governor: "Scheduled to address a meeting of Republican women at Philadelphia, I declared myself to be 'distressed and mortified' because an attack of German measles kept me at home...
...Governor Pinchot proudly admitted his part in the performance in a strong Prohibition statement from Harrisburg...
...tumult was loudest, Senator "Jim" Watson of Indiana, premier politician of the Republican Party, rose to make the first speech he has made in months. He tried to quiet the tumult by "explaining" the President's letter. It was not directed at the Senate, but at Mr. Pinchot, said he. The explanation was weak and failed to explain...