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Serving from 1909 to 1919 under four Secretaries of Interior (Garfield, Ballinger, Fisher, Lane) Andrew Christensen had charge of investigation of all public land matters in Alaska, notably the coal land cases which caused bitter controversy between Secretary Ballinger and Gifford Pinchot, then head of the Forest Service. Later he directed construction of the Alaska Railroad from Seward to Fairbanks...
...Capitalists are insane in their view toward the trade unions," declared Mrs. Gifford Pinchot, wife of the ex-governor of Pennsylvania and amateur strike-leader, in an address before the Liberal Club at Phillips Brooks House last night...
...case a peaceful strike leader was seized, beaten up, almost stripped in the streets, taken to jail, held incommunicado, and finally put in an insane asylum in another county." Mrs. Pinchot revealed that it was through her endeavors that he was finally found and released...
Telling of her recent trip in the South Sea Islands, she said, "A native woman kissed Mr. Pinchot while saying that he was a replica of a recently deceased Samoan chieftain...
Reinhold Niebuhr, a professor at Union Theological Seminary, Mrs. Gifford Pinchot, wife of the former governor of Pennsylvania, and possibly Heywood Broun are to be future Liberal Club speakers, in addition to others to be announced later...