Word: giffen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan, as on preceding birthdays (TIME, Dec. 17, 1934), newshawks sought out beautiful, little white-whiskered Dr. Charles Giffen Pease on his 81st birthday. Dr. Pease obliged: "My friends, I can tell a poison addict at a glance. I go into the park to walk. I pick out the children who are receiving cocoa, a drink as noxious as the poisonous alcohol. How can I tell? By the degeneracy of the skin, and the tissue around the eyes. It is unfailing. 'Madam,' I say, 'your child is receiving cocoa.' 'Yes,' she replies...
Divorced. Robert Giffen Stewart, son of Col. Robert Wright Stewart who was ousted by the Rockefellers from the chairmanship of Standard Oil Co. of Indiana (TIME, March 18, 1929); by his second wife. Mrs. Phyllis Shaw Stewart, named a "dangerous girl" by his first wife who divorced him in 1921; in Chicago. Grounds: desertion. Settlement: $340,000 over ten years...
...harp plinks of "Just a Song at Twilight," 40 loyal crusaders trooped into a festive Manhattan dining room, burst out: "Happy birthday, dear doctor, happy birthday to you." Beaming across his dinner table on his 80th birthday was silvery, bright-eyed Dr. Charles Giffen Pease, founder-president of the Non-Smokers' Protective League. Bristling enemy of coffee, tea, cocoa, chocolates, meats, drugs, medicines and vaccination. All through the vegetarian banquet which followed, the 40 guests talked of Dr. Pease's successful campaign in 1909 to have smoking banned in New York City subways. No one had forgotten his subsequent practice...
Only four times has Dr. Giffen visited the U. S. since he settled in the Sudan. In 1922 he was elected moderator of his church's general assembly. So unused had he become to the ways of U. S. Presbyterians that once, at a mission conference in Pittsburgh, he arose to give the benediction, got halfway through it before he realized he was speaking Arabic...
...confused with his nephew, President James Kelly Giffen of Knoxville College (Tenn.). -In South Africa last September, Missionary Myron Taylor was killed by a lion (TIME, Sept. 28). Rev. John Walter Vinson, Presbyterian missionary in China since 1907, was last week kidnapped, stabbed, decapitated by bandits who had looted his chapel and burned part of the town of Wansjiagieh...