Word: pinchots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...surprising that Mrs. Gifford Pinchot, wife of the Governor of Pennsylvania, was a part of the labor news last week. She made a move to end the Passaic, N. J., textile workers' strike;* despatched a letter to Col. Charles S. H. Johnson, Vice President of the Botany Worsted Mills, conspicuous on the employers' side of the deadlock, urging him to recognize the union organization...
...Pinchot is not the only wealthy woman who knows the difference between a "scab" and a striker. Last week, readers of The Christian Century were surprised to find the name of a great lady as one who had written a letter to that religious journal. The letter...
...Brooklyn. Jack Kearns, Dempsey's one-time manager, attached the Dempsey Rolls-Royce for sums which he declared stood owing. Then from Manhattan came a surprising announcement. Tex Rickard, foreseeing nothing but litigation in New York State, changed the place to Philadelphia, the day to September 23. Governor Pinchot of Pennsylvania, officials of the Sesquicentennial Exposition, boxing solons of both states, ratified. Dempsey moved his camp to Atlantic City. And sportsmen, feeling that the bout might actually take place, began to cast an eye on the participants. Challenger James J. ("Gene") Tunney, 27, is generally referred to in print...
Pennsylvania. To the major irregularities of civic conduct in Pennsylvania-the primary slush funds and Governor Pinchot's petticoat "supergovernment" with the W. C. T. U. (TIME, July 5, CRIME)-may be added a minor sideshow at the Philadelphia Sesquicentennial. The Sesquicentennial itself will probably come out on the wrong side of the ledger, but Philadelphians are consoled by the knowledge that local politicians will profit handsomely in real estate adjacent to the exhibition site, which it was their august privilege to select...
...Super-Government." The hue and cry that followed was, of course, loudest in Democratic newspapers. Leader of the pack was the alert New York World. Governor Pinchot's "s u p e r-p o w e r" (electricity) plan was recalled and the term "super-government" was coined. The World editorial was entitled "A Noble Conspiracy" and commented on how "the very good people, not just the respectable ones, but the good people, the good women in small towns, raised a fund which was used openly, honestly and with the best intentions to subvert the authority...