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That question was the most important one put last week to Walter Sherman Gifford, generalissimo of President Hoover's new Organization on Unemployment Relief.† It was popped by one of 40 Dole-conscious newsmen who faced Generalissimo Gifford down a long polished table in Secretary of Commerce Lament's office. A positive "yes," Mr. Gifford knew, was an answer that would greatly please President Hoover. But the President's relief director was determined to be more than a White House echo. Carefully he replied...
...Generalissimo Gifford crossed many another new bridge last week, however, as he started up relief machinery. Constantly at his elbow, explaining, coaching, advising, was big-bespectacled Fred Croxton, who had been acting chief of the defunct Emergency Committee for Employment. After Assistant Croxton showed Director Gifford the ropes, he departed for West Virginia to inspect distress in the coal mines where the State said it was unable to give relief. Another Croxton idea: Letters to 26.000 school superintendents throughout the land urging them to keep their older pupils at their desks and out of competition with men who really need...
...that he had no news to give out, that he was absorbed with the unemployment problem. Last week his visitors were limited to Government officials on official business. Finally he emerged from his seclusion to hold his first press conference in a fortnight, to announce the appointment of a generalissimo of relief and an impressive advisory committee (see p. 8), followed this up with a pronouncement on the Nation's health in poverty, which he found better than in wealth...
Attacked, and immediately counterattacking, was the great $1,282,000,000 Cities Service Co.. led into battle by its wily, picturesque generalissimo Henry Latham Doherty. Some 150 companies form the Cities Service group. Butt of the attack last week was Cities Service Gas Co., formed in 1922 as Empire Natural Gas Co., rechristened in 1927. Chief business of this unit is the transportation of natural gas from wells in Kansas. Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle. The gas is piped and sold to local companies in some 175 Kansas, Oklahoma and Missouri communities. Most of these, including the distributors...
...creation of the First U. S. Army which General Pershing commanded (Aug. 10). Immediate preparations were started for its active use. East of Verdun on the southern sector was a deep inactive salient known as St. Mihiel which the Germans had held since 1914. General Pershing got permission from Generalissimo Foch to use his new army against this bulge. Early on the misty morning of Sept. 12 began the St. Mihiel battle, with the ist Army fighting under U. S. command for the first time. Though the salient was virtually a field fortress, U. S. troops, with...