Word: gibsonized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gibson Winter...
...letter to TIME appearing in the May 3 issue, Mr. Mark W. Cresap denies that his ancestor, Captain Cresap, murdered the family of Logan, the friendly Mingo leader. Logan himself believed otherwise, as appears from his reply to John Gibson, an emissary from Governor Dunmore of Virginia, in 1774. His speech is regarded as a classic example of the simple, direct, dignified style of the Indian. It may be found in Vol. VII, The World's Best Orations, p. 2569 (1901 edition), and is as follows...
Five days later a fourth figure popped into what loomed as the biggest corporate anti-trust case since the dissolution of old Standard Oil in 1911. The distinguished kibitzer was Pittsburgh's Federal District Judge Robert Murray Gibson, 67, and his surprise move was to issue a temporary order restraining Attorney General Cummings and his subordinates from pursuing their action against Alcoa. In their petition for the order, Aluminum Co. attorneys had asserted that: 1) the Attorney General should have sued the company in Pittsburgh where its head offices are," instead of in Manhattan; 2) the charges were...
...cynics suspected Messrs. Cummings, Jackson & Co. of personal animus in initiating the Alcoa suit, New Deal partisans now equally wondered whether a "Mellon judge" was cracking back at them. White-haired, erudite Judge Gibson was appointed to the bench by President Harding 16 months after Mr. Mellon became Harding's Secretary of the Treasury. His son-in-law, William H. Eckert, is a member of the law firm of Smith, Buchanan, Scott & Ingersoll, Aluminum Co. attorneys. But in Pittsburgh it is a rare Republican, Presbyterian and substantial citizen who does not have at least one son-in-law connected...
...Benchley, Peter T. Brooks, John L. Dampeer, C. Colton Daughaday, Jr., Morris Earle, Joseph Franklin, H. Bruce Griswold, A. Jerome Himelhoch, Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., Francis Keppel, Elliott B. Knowlton, Wiley E. Mayne, Philip T. Shaban, Vernon H. Struck, Alvah W. Sulloway, Robert W. Snyder, Caspar W. Weinberger, and Gibson Winter...