Word: pinchots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Election expenses. No governor became excited over the corrupt practices act (limiting campaign expenses), but a onetime governor, Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania, an honorary member of the Conference, flayed Senator-elect William S. Vare of Pennsylvania and included in his caustic words Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon. The Conference listened, decided that candidates for office who had knowingly violated the corrupt practices act should not be allowed to hold their seats, thus begging the question and naming no names...
Hoover. Mr. Hoover was scheduled to speak at the Governor's Conference on Mackinac Island, Mich. (see POLITICAL NOTES). When he was unable to attend, his place was taken, spontaneously, by onetime Governor Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania. The substitution made a very considerable difference in the nature of the speech delivered, for Mr. Pinchot vigorously attacked the Federal Government for entrusting flood control to Army engineers, and Mayor William Hale Thompson of Chicago expressed his total lack of confdence in the flood-prevention measures recently (TIME, Aug. 1) expounded by Mr. Hoover at Rapid City. Mr. Pinchot termed...
...tall, lean man stands up before the Pennsylvania legislature. He is 61 and something of a fighter. His name is Gifford Pinchot (although the late Senator Boies Penrose once suggested that it be changed to "Pin-shot"). He is Governor of Pennsylvania and he is reading his farewell message. His audience becomes restless as he recounts the departmental doings. Suddenly he switches to "gangs"; there is a hush, followed by a buzz. He says...
Jeers and hisses, mingled with spasmodic applause, interrupt Governor Pinchot. He has been jeered before; he proceeds: "I refused to support Mr. Vare in the election on the sound and proper ground that his nomination was partly bought and partly stolen and I have no doubt that he deserves to be and will be excluded from the Senate...
...With such words, Governor Pinchot passed out of Pennsylvania politics last week. He will be succeeded on Jan. 18 by John S. Fisher, a Republican who is less of a thorn to the Pittsburgh and Philadelphia stalwarts. It will be remembered, however, that Mr. Pinchot has passed out before. Once a favorite of Theodore Roosevelt, he quarreled with President Taft in 1910 and was ousted from the important chairmanship of the U. S. Bureau of Forestry. Years later, in 1922, he arose like a ghost of a rebel past, surprised everyone by being elected Governor. His administration...