Word: pinchots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Governor Pinchot of Pennsylvania: "Arrests for drunkenness have enormously increased . . illegal withdrawals of whisky continue to increase, and, most significant of all, the withdrawals of alcohol to be denatured have nearly trebled in two years . . . I know of no scandal in our national history to compare with...
...Rosamond Pinchot, niece of Pennsylvania's famed Governor (see Page 5), appearing on the professional stage for the first time, gave to the part of the Nun a vibrant grace, a magnetic personality that made her quite the cynosure of the beholders. Lady Diana Manners was supremely beautiful as the Madonna, Werner Krauss magnificent as the crippled piper, Rudolph Schildkraut peculiarly powerful in the portrayal of several roles...
...Gifford Pinchot, Governor of Pennsylvania and ardent Dry: "The New York Herald commenced publication of a series of letters descriptive of life in Washington during the Roosevelt Administration and written by the late Major Archie Butt, military aid to the President. Said one letter: 'It was a pleasant afternoon. He [President Roosevelt] was in his best humor, and during the afternoon Longworth and his wife, Mr. Pinchot, the forester, and some others came in. The President had already ordered four mint juleps, but before they were served they had got up to eight. As each guest would arrive...
...Gifford Pinchot. He said: "One more mint julep, please;" then laughed with glee...
...Governor Pinchot of Pennsylvania, whose boom for the nomination swelled only a few months ago, seems to have shrunken into little more than a candidate for Pennsylvania delegate-at-large to the Republican Convention. All the formidable rivals of Coolidge seem to have withered in the bud, excepting only Senator Hiram Johnson of California. There are some who see Senator Johnson's boom as already suffering from a drought of public support...