Word: pinchots
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Greatest trouble was in Pennsylvania where the liquor control bills of Dry Governor Pinchot met two-edged opposition. The Legislature, on the Governor's recommendation, enacted a $2-per-gallon tax on all liquor stored within the State on Dec. 5. Distillers indignantly protested, claiming that the bill was unconstitutional, that they had not been given a hearing. Famed Schenley Distillers, the major part of whose stocks are stored in Pennsylvania, and National Distillers Products Corp., closed their plants, announced they would make their liquor elsewhere. Other manufacturers tried to ship liquor out of Pennsylvania, were prevented by armed...
...whiskey business when the years of the locust began but his family would not let him. So he sat down in Cincinnati to wait. He bought up stocks of medicinal whiskey, concentrated them in a warehouse in Schenley, Pa.-a move which, because of Governor Pinchot's tax, he sorely regretted last week. Later he bought the distillery that went with the warehouse and a few other distilleries. Last summer, having acquired a distributing unit and with it three capable whiskey men all named Jacobi, he organized Schenley Distillers Corp. He sold $3,000,000 of stock...
...licenses and quotas. Broken Axles. Under the eyes of a platoon of U. S. revenue agents, a caravan of 100 trucks clattered through the still streets of Philadelphia one night last week, shuttling 50,000 cases of gin across the river to Camden, N. J. Pennsylvania's Governor Pinchot was jamming through his Legislature a $2-a-gallon floor tax on every drop of liquor in his great distilling State. Next night he signed the bill, dis patched troopers to the borders. The 50,000 cases of gin belonging to a subsidiary of Publicker Commercial Alcohol Co. was about...
...strike of the NRA occurred last July in the same Pennsylvania coal fields (TIME, Aug. 7 et seq.). Starting in Fayette County, 50,000 miners walked out in protest against the operators' refusal to recognize John Llewellyn Lewis' United Mine Workers. Riot, bloodshed and death preceded Governor Pinchot's declaration of martial law and his dispatch of guardsmen. A temporary peace was patched up when President Roosevelt sent Deputy Administrator McGrady into the coal fields as his personal emissary to promise the strikers a square deal under NRA. With mining resumed, coal code negotiations at Washington settled...
TIME'S error arose from the fact that, on a recent visit to the White House. Governor Pinchot drove up in a blue Rolls-Royce-a borrowed car. Besides the State-owned Studebaker, Governor Pinchot has a Studebaker of his own. which he scrupulously uses on private expeditions. Mrs. Pinchot drives an Isotta-Fraschini; their son, Gifford Jr., a Lincoln...