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...Frissell, Yale '26, nephew of Governor Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania, discovered the Grenfell River and Yale Falls in Labrador. Sargent was Harvard...
...accordance with his pre-election pledge, Governor Gifford Pinchot* last week announced that when the 1,100 Coal & Iron police commissions expire on June 30 they will not be renewed. "I recognize," said he, "the necessity for police protection in these regions [chiefly the State's western industrial centres], but I believe it should be provided under conditions which will make such outrages as the Barcoski killing forever impossible...
...Governor Pinchot proposed a substitute plan for industrial police protection: to have the State pick, train and direct the officers, rent them to the companies in time of disturbance. Civil libertarians pointed out that under this plan all the taxpayers would have to pay for the officers until they were called out by an industrial concern; that persons injured by them would have redress against neither State nor private company, that the establishment of such a system would put the commonwealth in the position of merchandising police protection...
...issue of Power, to build it up for presidential 1932. They felt that the oustings were inspired by President Hoover, and served as a large and concrete wedge to widen the gap between the Administration and the Progressives (see col. 3). They recalled that the dismissal of Forester Gifford Pinchot in 1910 which helped split the G. O. P. and defeat William Howard Taft in 1912 was just such an incident at the time...
...Ferdinand Pecora, onetime chief assistant district attorney in Manhattan, a name well known to readers of Manhattan crime news. Chief counsel for defense was George Gordon Battle, noted Manhattan lawyer, attorney for the New York Stock Exchange. Other parts were taken by professionals, notably including Rosamond (The Miracle) Pinchot Gaston, socialite niece of Pennsylvania's Governor-elect Gifford Pinchot, in the role of the accused, lovely "Vivienne Ware." For promotion purposes the case was submitted to a jury, the mystery left unsolved. The jurors, of course, were the radio public. Money prizes were offered by the American...