The Ballinger-Pinchot Controversy (1909) was:
a. a dispute between the Secretary of the Interior and the Chief Forester over the sale of public land
b. a conflict between a reform governor and a corrupt urban boss
c. an investigation of communist infiltration of the State Department
d. the result of the sinking of an American merchant ship in French waters
e. a reaction to the passage of antitrust legislation.
