Word: gifford
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...idea of having an emergency business school session which should continue during the summer months was suggested last winter by Walter S. Gifford '04, Jesse I. Straus '93, and George Whitney '07, as a special measure to take care of college graduates who were unable to get jobs because of the current business depression. The administration acted on the suggestion, and the first special session was inaugurated last year which lasted from January 30 to August 16. Seventy five students were enrolled in the course...
...Manhattan hospital where for three weeks he has been under treatment for shingles, Pennsylvania's long lean Governor Gifford Pinchot signed four State bills authorizing payment of $50,000,000 in bonuses to Pennsylvania's War veterans. "There are only two things I want to talk about," said he. "Roosevelt and my shingles. . . . Now about this shingles business. . . . You know the Administration's critics are something like my shingles. Shingles are microscopic little things-as a matter of fact you can't even see them under a microscope. You can't imagine how frustrated...
...post of Chief Marshal, which is traditionally awarded to some member of the class celebrating its twenty-fifth reunion, has in the past been held by such prominent men as President Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, and Walter S. Gifford '05, President of the Bell Telegraph Company, and was awarded last year to John Richardson '08, Republican National Committeeman for Massachusetts...
Exclaiming "the pain is torturing, I can hardly stand it," Pennsylvania's long lean Governor Gifford Pinchot flew to Manhattan by airplane to be treated...
...Stettinius will within a reasonably short time become in fact Steel's "Mr. Statistics." Even before then he will probably become one of Steel's 15 directors along with J. P. Morgan, Thomas W. Lamont, Myron C. Taylor, James A. Farrell, George F. Baker, Walter S. Gifford and Sewell Avery. Today Little Stet is only 33. but as be fits a man who has already had a full career, he is practically white-haired. In 1926 he married Virginia Wallace, a Vir ginia girl. They have three children: Edward Jr., aged 3, and twin sons born last March...