Word: pinchot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There are giants, also, in these days. Consider Andrew W. Mellon, James Couzens, Gifford Pinchot, Republicans, millionaires, public servants...
...Governor Pinchot, it developed during the winter months, is no friend of Secretary Mellon. Prohibition was the avowed subject of their dispute...
President Coolidge, having received the letter, and having been advised that Mr. Pinchot's Prohibition passion had been mixed with senatorial soup, could endure no more. He, indignant, wrote to the Senate of the U. S. a letter which caused that august herd to snort and trumpet like so many hippopotami surprised at the feeding hour...
Amos Richard Eno Pinchot.*; If you want one of these men for President, you can take a hand in nominating him. The Committee of 48 proposed the above choice in a questionnaire and offered as a platform: 1) public ownership of the railroads, 2) control of money and credit by the people through Government and cooperative banks, 3) public control of natural resources, 4) preservation of civil rights guaranteed by the Constitution, 5) prevent on of judicial abuses. If a local unit of at least 25 people sign a petition endorsing the above platform, it is entitled to one delegate...
...Aside from Chairman Hepkins, Amos R. E. Pinchot of New York is the only Easterner in this group. Mr. Pinchot is the younger brother of Gifford Pinchot, Pennsylvania's famed Governor. He is a lawyer and publicist; served in the 1st Volunteer Cavalry at Porto Rico during the Spanish-American War. He is also something of an amateur squash player; though 50 years of age, he can administer severe drubbings to men of half his years...