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Word: pinchot (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Knox Hat Co. in 1923 and soon became acting director of the New York Labor Department's Division of Women in Industry under Frances Perkins. After that she served as director of Pennsylvania's Bureau of Women & Children, was appointed Secretary of Labor & Industry by Governor Gifford Pinchot in 1930, held that post for four years until New York's Governor Herbert Lehman drafted her to advise him on Relief. Last week, Head Resident Carr arrived in Chicago to take up her Hull House duties. For all Hull House's fame, the new head resident will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOCIAL SERVICE: Carr to Hull House | 10/11/1937 | See Source »

...first-nighters were of the opinion that production honors were even between Designer Bel Geddes, for the magic of his lighting and setting, and Director Reinhardt, for his skill in effectively sweeping the great crowds and actors over the vast stage. Sam Jaffe as the eternal Jewish cynic, Rosamond Pinchot as Bathsheba, Catherine Carrington as Ruth made themselves recognizable among the mobs of fellow-actors. Heard of but not recognized by many was pretty Florence Meyer, Backer Meyer's daughter, as an Egyptian princess, a fiend, a depraved woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jan. 18, 1937 | 1/18/1937 | See Source »

...traffic which in New York City alone amounted to 400,000 tons per year. But at its source the flow of stolen coal continues unabated. Law officers have declined to arrest the 'leggers, grand juries to indict them, petit juries to convict them. And Governor Earle, like Governor Pinchot before him, has refused every demand by coal operators for armed intervention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COAL: Anarchy Explored | 1/4/1937 | See Source »

...Manhattan, did not attend the SEC hearing, sending instead his husky, handsome son, Hugh Bullock. A few years out of Williams (Class of 1921), Son Hugh opened what has since grown into the head Bullock office in Manhattan. He married a cousin once removed of Pennsylvania's Gifford Pinchot, an attractive, honey-haired socialite who helped found the Academy of American Poets, which gives balls and raises money for fancy fellowships for U. S. poets. Explained Mrs. Bullock on one occasion: "Poetry has been on the decline in America principally, I believe, because poets must eat like the rest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Bullock in Washington | 10/26/1936 | See Source »

...Landon campaign speech in the East. While Nominee Landon was shaking hands with his relatives of all degrees and kissing his 83-year-old great-aunt so lustily that he knocked her hat off, the crowd was treated to another spectacle: Onetime Senator David Reed and onetime Governor Gifford Pinchot, Republican arch-enemies in Pennsylvania, marched out on the speaker's platform, shook hands and were photographed together. Harvey Taylor, Pennsylvania's Republican Chairman, introduced the speaker as a man "sane, sound, sensible and sincere." Alf Landon stepped forward to explain his ideals to his home folks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Livingstone's Travels | 8/31/1936 | See Source »

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