Word: gifford
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Around the President's desk last week assembled Myron Taylor of U. S. Steel, Eugene Gifford Grace of Bethlehem, Tom Mercer Girdler of Republic, many another steelmaster. Also on hand were Michael F. Tighe of the Amalgamated Iron, Steel & Tin Workers and William Green of the American Federation of Labor. They were all at the White House to report a deadlock over steel labor peace. The sticking point: Labor's demand that if a majority in a steel plant voted for the A. F. of L. union, the union should then represent all employes. The President told them...
...postponed electing a new president pending reorganization. Its members wanted an active steel executive at their head and a far-flung research staff to keep the industry and the public abreast of Steel's developments. Last week, its reorganization apparently completed, the Institute announced the election of Eugene Gifford Grace of Bethlehem Steel as president and Tom Mercer Girdler of Republic Steel as vice president. Henceforth only an executive within the industry may become the Institute's head, may hold office for not more than two years...
...were the famed voices of industry heard at the Congress of American Industry. Schwab of Bethlehem Steel, Atterbury of Pennsylvania Railroad, Swope of General Electric, Sloan of General Motors, Gifford of A. T. & T., Avery of Montgomery Ward were not even among those present. But genial, white-thatched Clinton Lloyd Bardo, who resigned month ago as president of New York Shipbuilding Corp., was there to uphold the position of tycoons...
...which country they belong. Seventeenth Century pirates knew them well. Charles Darwin visited them in his famed voyage of the Beagle. Ever since they have been a special delight for scientists, nature fakirs and wanderlustful millionaires. Within recent years such celebrities as William Beebe, Col. Theodore Roosevelt, John Barrymore, Gifford Pinchot, William K. Vanderbilt and Vincent Astor have visited the islands...
...Washington the Federal Trade Commission, in the eighth year of its holding company probe, released a fresh batch of hair-raising findings. The new Federal Communications Commission announced a thoroughgoing investigation into American Telephone & Telegraph Co. A.T. & T. stock promptly plunged $10 per share, and President Walter Sherman Gifford felt impelled to assure his security holders that there were no skeletons in the $5,000,000,000 A.T. & T. closet. And President Roosevelt's trip through the Tennessee Valley, with his warm praise for TVA wonders (see p. 11), did not improve the sleep of jittery utilitarians...