Word: pinchot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gifford Pinchot: General Johnson*. . . I wonder if you ever stay awake at night seeing the faces of the thousands of men and women who are pacing the streets of Pennsylvania towns, jobless and desperate, without resources and with despair in their hearts, because they had faith in your promises and went ahead and organized a union and for so doing lost their jobs, and never a finger in Washington lifted to help them...
...results: "We have the support of Industry, of Labor and of the People of the U. S. ... Of course, there has been some diatribe and exaggeration. I am sorry I could not be in five places at once and especially that I could not have welcomed Mrs. Pinchot...
Thus last week, recuperating in a Manhattan sanatorium from a siege of shingles, did Pennsylvania's Governor Gifford Pinchot announce his intention of seeking in the primaries next May the Republican nomination he failed to get in 1914 and 1926. An oldtime Progressive with New Deal sympathies, Governor Pinchot if defeated by Senator Reed may run next November as an independent...
...there is, after all, not much reason for Mrs. Pinchot's pained surprise. The Blue Eagle is an eagle without talons, whether or not there be compliance boards in every hamlet in the republic. The Blue Eagle forfeited its hopes for even a temporary success when it backed down on collective bargaining, which is the only sane path to industrial democracy. It did not back down because the President was losing courage, or because the great interests had an undue influence on the formation of his policy. It backed down because it was making pretensions to something which...
...Roosevelt's administration is faced with three very formidable kinds of opposition; two of which are composed of those who know what the real issues are, and the last of which, among whom Mrs. Pinchot and her class are numbered, does not fully realize them. He will be attacked by the intelligent members of the group which now owns our instruments of production and distribution, because his legislation cannot but act against their fundamental interests. He will be attacked by those who are fighting for the public ownership of industry, because his plan of a control without ownership is clearly...