Word: pinchot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since Mr. Lewis holds the balance of power in Pennsylvania, the ticket was temporarily shelved. Adding to the confusion is the fact that John L. Lewis is toying with the idea of backing Republican Gifford Pinchot for Governor, running Miner Kennedy for Senator...
Died. Rosamond Pinchot Gaston, 32, tall, handsome actress (the nun in Max Reinhardt's Miracle, 1924), niece of Pennsylvania's onetime Governor Gifford Pinchot; of carbon monoxide poisoning; in a garage at her Old Brookville, L. I. home...
...present B. C. C. is headed by Charles Franklin Hosford Jr., a 50-year-old Princeton graduate who went on to Harvard Law School, practiced in Butler, Pa. until 1923 when he began his coal career as president & general manager of Erie Coal Mining Co. A member of Governor Pinchot's Pennsylvania Coal Commission in 1931, he had a hand in drafting the NRA coal code, went to Washington under the first Guffey Act as a National Coal Commissioner. A Guffey man, he is extremely dictatorial, rules the commission, whose majority supports him, with an iron hand. Whenever this...
Utility cohorts in Lehigh and Berks Proceeded to hand Gifford Pinchot...
When stately Journalist Richard Joseph Beamish wrote that jingle for the Philadelphia Record in 1930 the utility whose cohorts he had particularly in mind was big Pennsylvania Power & Light Co. Gifford Pinchot, elected Pennsylvania's Governor despite the "works" from Pennsylvania Power & Light, found a job for Mr. Beamish. As secretary of the Commonwealth, Mr. Beamish had plenty of opportunities to state his views about the public utilities. During the campaign of 1934 he wet his finger, held it up in the wind and hastily became a Democrat. So when Governor George Earle set up a new Public Utility...