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...Pennsylvania Governor Pinchot rushed through measures giving dictatorial power over withdrawals to the Secretary of Banking...
Republican nomination for President. Early last year he came out against President Hoover's renomination on the ground that "not one Republican voter in ten wants him." His candidate was Gifford Pinchot whose portrait hangs in his office. The first successful campaign in which Reformer Ickes ever participated was that of Franklin Roosevelt...
...Roosevelt was in Harrisburg to speak at a conference on malnutrition. Mrs. Pinchot wanted to show her how well and economically Pennsylvania is feeding its unemployed. Governor Pinchot wanted to show critics of the State's relief work. At the community market in York, maintained with State and Federal relief funds, they bought for $2.72 enough to feed 75 people. Oranges they got for 1? each, eggs for 17? the dozen, cabbage, onions, apples for 1? a lb., beef...
...every Pennsylvanian could have performed the feat of which Governor Pinchot was last week so proud. The community market sold him the food at cost. The State Relief Board says that, by buying for community markets in large quantities, it gets food from wholesalers 30% cheaper than retail merchants...
...year's high of 453, the American Kennel Club's dachshund registration has now leaped to some 2,200. The dog's droll appearance and manners, its intelligence, loyalty and hardiness have won it friends. Some famed dachs-owners: Alfred Lunt & Lynn Fontanne, Otto Kahn, Rosamond Pinchot Gaston, Katharine Cornell, Marlene Dietrich, Richard Tauber, Dorothy Parker...