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Died. Gifford Pinchot, 81, opinionated oldtime Progressive Republican, pioneer conservationist and Forestry chief under McKInley, Roosevelt I and Taft (1898-1910), who helped found the Bull Moose Party in 1912 and, despite opposition by G.O.P. bosses, was twice elected Pennsylvania's governor (1923-27, 1931-35); of leukemia; in Manhattan...
...some little, some called one thing, some called another. Jackson had the "Kitchen Cabinet"; its chief cooks were two Kentucky editors, Amos Kendall and Francis Preston Blair. Wilson had Colonel House. Teddy Roosevelt had his "Tennis Cabinet," the "high-minded and efficient set" of young men which included Gifford Pinchot and James G. Garfield. Harding had Harry Daugherty and Albert Fall, who belonged to his official Cabinet and doubled as part of the gang out of meetings. Franklin Roosevelt had a whole school of brain-trusters, advisers, special assistants and above all, Harry Hopkins...
...Gifford Pinchot, wife of Pennsylvania's ex-governor, took a nephew and 13-year-old Presidential Grandson Curtis ("Buzzie") Dall to a ship launching in Baltimore. None of them had ever seen one before, she explained...
...unexpired term in the House after a fiery campaign in which he promised to "deal firmly with the defeatists, the sowers of dissension . . . who are working with the Axis warlords to . . . hamper our country's war effort." Taking his pretty wife (a onetime secretary of Mrs. Gifford Pinchot) to Washington as his secretary, Elmer Holland started right in on a seven-days-a week study of Captain Joe's News and Cissie Patterson's Washington Times-Herald. Last fortnight, in his maiden speech, he let fly: Captain Joe and Cissie, he charged, were "America...
Gaunt Amos Richards Eno Pinchot, participator with Brother Gifford in founding the Bull Moose party, father of the late Actress Rosamond (once The Nun in The Miracle), who killed herself in 1938, longtime anti-New Dealer, onetime America Firster, whose 68th birthday fell the day before Pearl Harbor, slashed several veins in one of his arms and was taken to a Westport, Conn, hospital. His condition: critical...