WOMEN: Mrs. Pinchot Plans
Mrs. Gifford Pinchot, having drawn breath after the whirlwind campaign that made her husband Governor of Pennsylvania, went to Washington with a plan.
"Let the women of a state or other unit area take charge of prohibition enforcement," she urged President Harding. "Let them take charge from top to bottom, as an experiment, and see if women are not more zealous for enforcement than men."
President Harding thinks enough of the proposal to have it referred to the Prohibition Bureau, where it may have effect despite rough-and-ready opposition.
Mrs. Pinchot does not claim absolute honesty for all women, but she told the President she believed "there are available 1,000 to 50,000 women who are unbribable. And they are more prejudiced in favor of prohibition than men."
Most Popular »
- The '00s: Goodbye (at Last) to the Decade From Hell
- The Growing Backlash Against Overparenting
- Obama's 'Mistakes': Way Too Early to Judge
- One Year After the Mumbai Massacre, a Trial Plods On
- Ahmadinejad in Brazil: Why Lula Defies the U.S.
- In His Cave, a Palestinian Farmer Makes a Stand
- California Judge Challenging Obama on Gay Rights
- Me and Orson Welles: Zac Efron Takes the Stage
- The Fall of Greg Craig, Obama's Top Lawyer
- Zhu Zhu Mania: Hamster Toys Are Ruling Christmas
- The Growing Backlash Against Overparenting
- The '00s: Goodbye (at Last) to the Decade From Hell
- Five Things the U.S. Can Learn from China
- Obama's 'Mistakes': Way Too Early to Judge
- Zhu Zhu Mania: Hamster Toys Are Ruling Christmas
- Why Exercise Won't Make You Thin
- Obama Weighs the Cost of an Afghan Surge
- Ahmadinejad in Brazil: Why Lula Defies the U.S.
- Will Private Equity Be the Next Meltdown?
- Think Big with an African Ocean Safari
Quotes of the Day »
Quotes of the Day »
RSS