Word: pinchot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Philadelphia, Orlandi Spartaco, whose antiFascism impelled him to jump on the running board of visiting Foreign Minister Dino Grandi's car two months ago and shout insults, was released from jail on $1,000 bail. The Italian statesman had pleaded with Governor Gifford Pinchot to release Zealot Spartaco from a two-year prison sentence...
...Philadelphia, one Orlandi Spartaco, 26, jumped on the running board of a car carrying Dino Grandi, Fascist Italy's visiting Foreign Minister. Jabbering, "Down with Grandi! Down with Fascism!" Anti-Fascist Spartaco was dragged off to jail, sentenced to two riot." To years Governor imprisonment Gifford for Pinchot "inciting to last week sleek, smiling, politic Minister Grandi wired : "I have not the slightest intention of interfering with the administration of justice in this country, but I feel that I could make a personal appeal to you to take into consideration the possibility of an act of clemency. Please consider...
...Governor Pinchot pointed out that any act of executive clemency must follow a recommendation by the State Board of Pardons...
...Crusaders organization has accomplished much in its short lifetime. It actively supported Senator-Elect Lewis of Illinois, Joseph Ely and Marcus Coolidge of Massachusetts; assisted materially in the defeat of the Baby Volstead Act in this state. In Pennsylvania it supported Hemphill against. Pinchot for governor, and although defeated Hemphill polled a 225,000 majority in Philadelphia, the Crusaders greatest stronghold in the state...
...Postmaster General Brown authorized the hiring of 176,205 extra employes to handle Christmas mail. C. Governor Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania planned to establish relief camps for the jobless, to put them to work building roads...