Word: gifford
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First company to comply with the Stock Exchange's suggestion was the biggest company listed on the Hoard, American Telephone & Telegraph. President Walter Sherman Gifford told the 350 A. T. & T. stockholders who turned out for the annual meeting in Manhattan last week that their company's profits for the twelve months through March 1936 were $130,000,000 compared to $118,000,000 for the same period through March 1935. Those figures were not for the entire Bell System, earnings of which were reported only through February. But to find out what the parent company...
...Gifford: They usually want telephone connections. We try to be reasonably kind to our prospective customers...
...Gifford: You were overlooked. I'm sorry...
...Gifford: That may be the only way you can make the acquaintance of legislators. I might give a man a cigar. I think it's a matter of degree...
Becker: Do you think giving theatre tickets might be a little bit wicked? Mr. Gifford's reply was lost in laughter...