Word: gibsonized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...salaries had been boosted from $75,000 to $100,000, Chairman James Handasyd Perkins of Manhattan's National City Bank warned that "it is the duty of banks to do all in their power to avoid the pitfalls which increased prosperity creates." Cried Har vey Dow Gibson to applauding stockholders in his Manufacturers Trust: "As a nation we seem now definitely committed to a program of social legislation which will iron out some of the inequities of our economic order. . . . This is altogether in keeping with the spirit of the times and with the lessons which the Depression taught...
...recipients are C. Colmery Gibson '37, of Atlanta, Georgia; Edger W. Hirshberg '38, of Cambridge; DeWitt S. True '39, of West Roxbury; Perry J. Culver '37, of Exeter, New Hmpshire; Graham K. Spring '37, of New Britain, Connecticut; and Albert M. Harlow '38, of West Concord...
...before the Brazilian Congress. On the rostrum sat the President of the Brazilian Senate, flanked by the Chief Justice of the Brazilian Supreme Court and the President of the Chamber of Deputies. Below them sat the U. S. President in a grey suit flanked by U. S. Ambassador Hugh Gibson and Son James Roosevelt arrayed in the new white uniform of a Lieutenant-Colonel of Marines (Reserve). Then, after listening to a half-hour address of welcome, Franklin Roosevelt arose to deliver his opening salute to Peace...
Died. David ("Winkle") Brooks, 26, son-in-law of Vice President James Andrew Moffett of Standard Oil of California, nephew of Lady Astor and Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson; when he fell from a window of his Park Avenue apartment; in Manhattan. His wife's mother, Mrs. Adelaide Taft McMichael Moffett, died two years ago in the same...
Last week by far the most important piece of financing yet undertaken for New York City's biggest show was announced by Finance Chairman Harvey Dow Gibson, public-spirited president of Manufacturers Trust Co. To provide for planning and construction during the next two years, an issue of $27,829,000 in debentures will be offered by the World's Fair Corporation to businessmen-investors. To act as chief salesman for this offering Mr. Gibson named Richard Whitney, Depression president of the New York Stock Exchange...