Word: gifford
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus last week, recuperating in a Manhattan sanatorium from a siege of shingles, did Pennsylvania's Governor Gifford Pinchot announce his intention of seeking in the primaries next May the Republican nomination he failed to get in 1914 and 1926. An oldtime Progressive with New Deal sympathies, Governor Pinchot if defeated by Senator Reed may run next November as an independent...
...outstanding voice at General Johnson's NRA conference has been that of Mrs. Gifford Pinchot, wife of the governor of Pennsylvania. In bringing up the charge that there are towns in Pennsylvania in which she was not permitted to speak in favor of the recovery program, and in giving the names of steel employees who were discharged because of their part in her labour meetings, Mrs. Pinchot has given a real and unmistakable challenge to the present administration. Mrs. Pinchot was one of the many liberals who believed in the NRA before an examination of the fundamental political philosophy could...
During the bull market American Telephone & Telegraph paid no extra dividends, split no stock, put all its extra earnings into surplus. By 1932 that surplus was big enough to have paid each & every stockholder $31. That year, when A. T. & T. and affiliates earned only $5.96, President Walter Gifford took $58,000,000 out of surplus, paid his 700,000 stockholders the customary $9 dividend...
...only $5.38 a share. Bell System telephones were down only 630,000 against 1,650,000 for 1932, but Western Electric had lost $13,000,000. Dividends had been paid at the regular rate each quarter, leaving a deficit of $68,000,000. To cover it President Gifford turned once more to surplus...
...Board of Overseers for the Department of Economics is a case in point. Glancing down the roster of the committee, one finds the names of Wintrhop W. Aldrich, George F. Baker, Richard Whitney, and two lease moguls of the banking fraternity, together with Walter Lippmann and Walter S. Gifford. For a committee of seven members, the Overseers managed to pick one liberal columnist, one president of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, and five bankers...