Word: gaither
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...inadvertently leaking to the press that the Ford Motor Co. might put some of its Ford stock on the market. Finally, at President Eisenhower's first inauguration, Ford told Hoffman: "This is the end, Paul." A month later the trustees also rose against Hoffman, elected Rowan Gaither president and ordered him to move Itching Palms to Madison Avenue. Hoffman became board chairman of his brain child, the Fund for the Republic. As for Hutchins, no one knew quite what to do. "I am an associate director," said he as he cooled his heels in Pasadena, "who doesn...
...Fund for the Republic, was locked in battle with a congressional committee because of its wobbly approach to the problem of Communism (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Ignoring its offspring's noisy troubles, the foundation quietly beefed up its command, picked a new president to succeed able Lawyer H. Rowan Gaither Jr., who continues only as the foundation's board chairman. The foundation's new boss: Henry Townley Heald, president of New York University...
Keppel cited a recent speech of H. Rowan Gaither, president of the Ford Foundation, as a sign that business intends to continue to aid education. In his speech, at a Boston Chamber of Commerce dinner, Gaither called on "communities and industries alike" to join in strengthening the financial structure of the nation's education...
Died. Charles P. Gaither, 88, developer in 1901 of an early automobile (the Fredonia B-68, which won a 500-mile New York-Boston-New York race in 1902) and an early half-tone newspaper engraving process; in Youngstown, Ohio...
...foundations made statements of their own in defense of their position. "The Ford Foundation has not used nay of its resources for un-American or subversive activities." H. Rowan Gaither, Jr., Foundation president, testified. "Nor have we used any of our resources for political purposes, propaganda, or attempts to influence legislation...