Word: pinchot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gifford Pinchot, having drawn breath after the whirlwind campaign that made her husband Governor of Pennsylvania, went to Washington with a plan...
...Pinchot does not claim absolute honesty for all women, but she told the President she believed "there are available 1,000 to 50,000 women who are unbribable. And they are more prejudiced in favor of prohibition than...
...order changeth", as they say-at least where the Republican party is concerned. The primary elections of that organization in Pennsylvania have resulted in a complete upset; the Old Guard candidate for governor, supported by the strongest political organization in the country, has been defeated by Gifford Pinchot, disciple of Roosevelt Progressivism. Mr. Pinchot in his campaign attacked the extravagance, inefficiency, and machine rule of the administration under Governor Sproul, and in so doing obtained the support of that part of the voting population which looked forward to political "cleaning up". But for that very reason he also...
...relegated to the archives of the Republican party, with it will be consigned the victory of Mr. Beveridge over Senator New in the Indiana primaries held a few weeks ago. Although the result of this election was neither as unexpected nor as significant as the election of Mr. Pinchot, it is important as being likewise a triumph for the progressive Republicans over the reactionary element. Together, the two primary elections show the existence of a wide spread dissatisfaction with present Republican politics...
Since the days of President Roosevelt, when Mr. Pinchot was Secretary of the Interior, the policy of the Federal government in regard to our natural resources has been one of conservation; particularly in so far as our timberland is concerned. Mr. Roosevelt perceived, with his accustomed far-sightedness, that the day was coming when it would be no longer possible to misuse our natural products with the carelessness and wastefulness which then held sway. The bills put through under his administration have been practically the only check on the destruction of our forests...