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PENNSYLVANIA: Women appear to have won the right to go to jail for nonpayment of taxes. After a long fight, a bill finally passed the legislature and went to the Governor for his signature. The Governor is the husband of Mrs. Gifford Pinchot, who is active on behalf of women in politics. The former law, passed in 1834, provided that women, infants and persons of unsound mind could not be imprisoned for nonpayment of taxes...
...groaned in disapproval. After an hour's debate the amendment was defeated. ¶f Quantities of birth control literature appeared, but, according to reports, was not circulated. Greetings were read from Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, who was one of the founders of the League. ¶ Mrs. Gifford Pinchot, wife of the Governor of Pennsylvania, declared in a speech: " I am a politician of the most hard-boiled and shelled-back variety-and proud of it." ¶ Lord Robert Cecil spoke on the League of Nations and the desirability of the United States entering it. ¶The League, by resolution...
...present convention was devoted principally to consideration of the issues that will come forward in the election of 1924-with special emphasis on international cooperation. Among the speakers on the program of the convention were Herbert Hoover, Justice Florence Allen of the Ohio Supreme Court, Mrs. Gifford Pinchot, wife of the Governor of Pennsylvania, Lord Robert Cecil. At the 1922 convention in Baltimore Lady Astor was a speaker...
...professional politicians are passing their time in vigorous speculation. "A!" Smith's recent exploits in New York, together with the similar performances of Governor Edwards will seriously handicap the Democrats when they begin to choose a presidential candidate. The drastic enforcement of prohibition in Pennsylvania, by the Republican Governor Pinchot contrasts pointedly with the New York attitude of "hands off" sponsored by the Democrats. To nominate Smith or Edwards would be to link the Democrats with the wet interests, nationally, and the strongest factions agree that this would be fatal. Even Senator Underwood, probably the ablest of all Democratic possibilities...
PENNSYLVANIA :Governor Smith of New York flatly declined to comply with Governor Pinchot's request that New York drop her suit to take control of Niagara Falls from the Federal Government and give it to the state. Governor Smith urged that states must fight "growing Federal encroachment...