Word: gifford
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan, did not attend the SEC hearing, sending instead his husky, handsome son, Hugh Bullock. A few years out of Williams (Class of 1921), Son Hugh opened what has since grown into the head Bullock office in Manhattan. He married a cousin once removed of Pennsylvania's Gifford Pinchot, an attractive, honey-haired socialite who helped found the Academy of American Poets, which gives balls and raises money for fancy fellowships for U. S. poets. Explained Mrs. Bullock on one occasion: "Poetry has been on the decline in America principally, I believe, because poets must eat like the rest...
...Eliot Wadsworth, John W. Prentiss; 1899--Arthur Adams, George F. Baker; 1900--Edward Mallinckrodt, Jr., Dwight F. Davis; 1901--James Lawrence, Robert E. Goodwin; 1902--Barrett Wendell, Jr., Robert J. Bulkley; 1903--Roger Ernst, Monte M. Lemarin; 1904--James Jackson, Arthur A. Ballantine; 1905--Ogden L. Mills, Walter S. Gifford; 1906--F. Abbot Goodhue, Philip Ketchum; 1907--Winthrop W. Aldrich, Robert L. Bacon; 1908--Rudolph Altrecchi, Samuel E. Morison; 1909--Elliott C. Cutler, William G. Wendell; 1910--Roger Amery, Clarence C. Little; 1911--Herbert Jacques, Charles E. Denlap; 1912--Hugh J. Gaddis, Robert T. Fisher; 1913--Samuel M. Folton, George...
Senator Robert J. Buckley '02 of Ohio; Joseph C. Grew '02, ambassador to Japan; Arthur A. Ballantine '04, former Undersecretary of the Treasury; Congressman Chester C. Bolton '05 of Ohio; Ogden L. Mills '05, former Secretary of the Treasury; Walter S. Gifford '05, president of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company; Winthrop W. Aldrich '07, chairman of the Chase National Bank; Congressman Robert L. Bacon...
...first Landon campaign speech in the East. While Nominee Landon was shaking hands with his relatives of all degrees and kissing his 83-year-old great-aunt so lustily that he knocked her hat off, the crowd was treated to another spectacle: Onetime Senator David Reed and onetime Governor Gifford Pinchot, Republican arch-enemies in Pennsylvania, marched out on the speaker's platform, shook hands and were photographed together. Harvey Taylor, Pennsylvania's Republican Chairman, introduced the speaker as a man "sane, sound, sensible and sincere." Alf Landon stepped forward to explain his ideals to his home folks...
Died. Lawrence Gifford, 43, Wartime aviator, brother of President Walter Sherman Gifford of American Telephone & Telegraph Co.; after long illness; at Saranac Lake...