Word: pinchots
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...Prohibition campaigns, that churches were the only rallying places for the 18th Amendment. To secularize the Dry cause became the purpose of Allied Forces. Dr. Poling called it a "new deal." Among its sponsors was no long list of churchmen but such names as Thomas Alva Edison, Gifford Pinchot, Jane Addams, Evangeline Booth, Patrick Henry Callahan, Oliver Wayne Stewart, Raymond Robins, William Gibbs McAdoo, Orrin R. Judd...
Governor Roosevelt was followed in the afternoon by Pennsylvania's Republican Governor Gifford Pinchot. The program committee had assigned him a safe and sane topic: "Timber Needs of the Future." This he swept aside to launch into a tirade against public utilities, his favorite political theme. He warned the Governors of the political domination of the Power Trust. He named four groups: Mellon-Morgan, Insull, North American, Harris-Forbes. These, he said, generated about 95% of U. S. electricity. He predicted their merger into one colossal combination. Excerpts from a speech which got the biggest applause...
Though officially the Governors' Conference accomplished nothing more than it ever does, it did serve to point up presidential politics for next year. Newsmen were quick to interpret Governor Pinchot's outburst as an opening sound off for the Republican nomination against President Hoover. Recalled was their long personal antagonism which culminated fortnight ago when President Hoover spoke alone at Valley Forge while Governor Pinchot was memorializing his old idol Theodore Roosevelt at his Oyster Bay tomb. While nobody seriously expected Mr. Pinchot to muster 10% of the delegates to the national convention, he became an anti-Hoover...
This production of "Electra" will have its premiere in Boston. The cast includes: Vivienne Giesen who replaced Rosamund Pinchot as the Nun In Max Reinhardt's "Miracle"; Dorothy Scott, formerly of Margaret Anglin's company in her production of "Electra"; Robert Henderson, whose successes in New York were followed by a year at the Copley Theater in Boston; and George Coulouris whose work with the Theater Guild has received exceptional praise. Louis Horst, noted pianist and the foremost dance accompanist in America has composed the music for the production, and will accompany Miss Graham in her dance...
Alert Dr. Frank Horace Vizetelly, famed lexicographer, had remarks to make about a word used in a radioration recently by Mrs. Gifford Pinchot, wife of the Governor of Pennsylvania. The word was "radiorator." Said Dr. Vizetelly: "The lady probably pronounced it radiorator but . . . my feeling is that the general public would pronounce it radiorator? which would be a horrible thing...