Word: pinchot
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...other persons unaccustomed to dining on black bean soup, stuffed cabbage and hamburger steak. With many a polite smile and exclamation they proceeded to eat not only black bean soup, stuffed cabbage and hamburger but also cornbread, spinach, apple & orange salad, ice cream. Not because Governor Gifford Pinchot was serving them the menu did his guests exclaim, but because he had paid for each one's food (except the ice cream, which came extra) only...
Engaged. Hugh Bullock, son of Banker Calvin Bullock of Denver and Manhattan; and Marie Leontine Graves, cousin of Pennsylvania's Governor Gifford Pinchot...
...Pennsylvania law had gone into effect requiring Pennsylvania licenses on all commercial buses and trucks owned outside and operating inside the State. New Jersey retaliated by closing its borders to all Pennsylvania trucks and buses, whether operated for hire or privately used. While Governor Gifford Pinchot was maintaining in Harrisburg that "Pennsylvania was losing very extensively because trucks from other States were using up our roads . . . the law is a wise one," one after another, Ohio, West Virginia, Maryland, Delaware and New York automatically cancelled their reciprocal license agreements with Pennsylvania and hired Pennsylvania motor transport was banned from their...
...Roosevelt statement. He called me every name under the sun. . . . I'm an oldtime ball player but in all my experience I never heard any more blasphemous or profane language than he used to me." ¶ "Not a peep!" declared Pennsylvania's insurgent Republican Governor Gifford Pinchot when asked to tell how he was going to vote. Governor Pinchot dismissed a director of relief at Wilkes-Barre when he caught him franking out food orders in U. S. Department of Labor envelopes containing a picture of President Hoover labeled "Your...
...Poor friends at best, President Hoover and Pennsylvania's Governor Pinchot clashed over R. F. C. relief for that State again last week. Irked at R. F. C. delays Governor Pinchot wired the President a protest against "its cruel, needless and unexplained refusal" to advance Pennsylvania $10,000,000 for relief, asked for a White House appointment "to end this senseless embargo." President Hoover replied that he has "no authority or right to direct the board to make specific loans," declared it was composed of "eminent, patriotic and sympathetic men," suggested the Governor study the law. Mr. Pinchot rapped back...