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...outstanding voice at General Johnson's NRA conference has been that of Mrs. Gifford Pinchot, wife of the governor of Pennsylvania. In bringing up the charge that there are towns in Pennsylvania in which she was not permitted to speak in favor of the recovery program, and in giving the names of steel employees who were discharged because of their part in her labour meetings, Mrs. Pinchot has given a real and unmistakable challenge to the present administration. Mrs. Pinchot was one of the many liberals who believed in the NRA before an examination of the fundamental political philosophy could...
...Weir and Mr. Budd, who head the Budd Manufacturing Company in Philadelphia, are the especial targets of Mrs. Pinchot's attack. The Budd company has openly defied the code provisions of the NRA, and the complaints against them have been referred back and forth, with an agonizing inconstancy, from the Department of Justice to the National Labour Board. When Mrs. Pinchot wired to Senator Wagner of the Labour Board, an assistant wired back a request for affidavits, although several thousands of affidavits were already in the hands of the Board, and as many more with the Department of Justice...
Editor Baker studied the Commission's report, called on Governor Pinchot, went back to Susquehanna to fight in earnest. He urged his readers to pay only the old rates when they got their bills from the water company. When the water company shut off the supply, he argued that the company had no right to deprive citizens of a vital necessity. Susquehanna citizens took to standing on shutoff boxes to prevent water company agents from closing the valves...
...Manhattan hospital where for three weeks he has been under treatment for shingles, Pennsylvania's long lean Governor Gifford Pinchot signed four State bills authorizing payment of $50,000,000 in bonuses to Pennsylvania's War veterans. "There are only two things I want to talk about," said he. "Roosevelt and my shingles. . . . Now about this shingles business. . . . You know the Administration's critics are something like my shingles. Shingles are microscopic little things-as a matter of fact you can't even see them under a microscope. You can't imagine how frustrated...
Exclaiming "the pain is torturing, I can hardly stand it," Pennsylvania's long lean Governor Gifford Pinchot flew to Manhattan by airplane to be treated...