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...entered the Government service as Chief of the Division of Forestry in the Department of the Interior. He served twelve years, and during that time the personnel under him increased from 11 to 2,000. He became a favorite of President Roosevelt, who regarded him as one of his most efficient subordinates. President Roosevelt made him a member of the Commission on Public Lands and numerous other efficiency and conservation bodies. He was made Chairman of the National Conservation Commission...
...President Taft ousted Pinchot for his attack on Richard A. Ballinger, Secretary of the Interior, who had become involved in a forestry scandal. His removal was apparently the end of his officeholding career. Senator Boies Penrose, who called him "Pin-shot," was his enemy and it did not look as if there was any political advancement for him in Pennsylvania. In 1920, to be sure, he was made State Forester...
...been offered two Cabinet posts besides his own at times when the posts were problems for the President: Mr. Harding offered him the Interior portfolio when Mr. Fall retired, and President Coolidge offered him the Secretariat of Agriculture after Mr. Wallace's death. He refused both jobs. But his policy in regard to agriculture won with the President, and Secretary Jardine, a man of the Hoover school of thought, was appointed at his suggestion...
Surprise was expressed by the delegates when reports were read in which it appeared that the Tuchuns (War Lords) in the interior of China have been levying "special taxes" of their own which are double or triple the "likin." The fact that the Tuchuns are strong and do as they like, despite the feeble reproofs of the Peking Government, is of course the great argument advanced by Britain in contending that tariff autonomy cannot be proximately granted to China...
Last week, however, the War Lords were well behaved. General Feng, the Peking Dictator, bothered the Conference not at all. 'And in the interior the great Super-Tuchuns, Wu and Chang, stalked one another, out of harm's way, without any decisive or even notable results...