Word: gifford
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Central R. R. ................. 500 Arthur . Davis, of Aluminum Co. ................. 1,000 Frederick H. Ecker, of Metropolitan Life .................2,000 Marshall Field III.............2,000 Philip A. S. Franklin, of I. M. M. ............1,000 Artemus L. Gates, of N. Y. Trust Co.............5,000 Walter S. Gifford, of A. T. &. T .........1,000 George H. Howard, of United Corp............2,000 Arthur Curtiss James ............2,000 Percy H. Johnston, of Chemical Bank & Trust ........1,000 Cornelius F. Kelley, of Anaconda ..........2,000 Clarence H. Mackay ...........2,000 Jlenry C. McEldowney, Pittsburgh banker ........5,000 Charles E. Mitchell ................10,000 Frederick...
...American Humane Association, with headquarters in Albany, was at hand to congratulate Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1929 when he signed a bill prohibiting the cropping of dogs' ears in New York. Last week the Association sent its congratulations to another Governor, Pennsylvania's Gifford Pinchot. for signing a bill which made his State the fifth to ban this practice. Others: Massachusetts, New Jersey, Connecticut...
...resolution inspired by strike-leading Mrs. Gifford Pinchot (TIME, May 15) was passed suggesting that "the Junior League acquaint its members with wage and working conditions that prevail in the factories, shops and stores in their own neighborhoods and to take an active part, through the molding of a civic consciousness, to secure the eradication of such unhealthy and uneconomical conditions as may threaten the welfare of our citizens...
...Penny Opera (words & music by Bert Brecht & Kurt Weill; John Krimsky $ Gifford Cochran, producers). The pedigree of this tatterdemalion opera bouffe is long and diffuse. From the 200-year-old John Gay libretto, Messrs Brecht & Weill made a modern German adaptation. It became a cinema and an operetta called Die Dreigroschenoper. These played about the European capitals with marked success. Then Messrs Krimsky & Cochran anglicized the operetta, first naming their production The Beggar's Opera, then The Three-Pence Opera, then The 3-Penny Opera...
...been in existence over a month, but only last week did press & public learn of New York's Academy of Arts. Immediately the Academy's bulletin board burgeoned like jonquils in an Alpine meadow with yellow telegrams of congratulation from Pennsylvania's Gifford Pinchot. Critic George Jean Nathan, Photographer Arnold Genthe, dozens of others. Starting with an idea and an empty room six weeks ago the Academy now boasts nearly 50 pupils, most of them bartering their services as typists, scrubwomen, carpenters or models for lessons in painting, drawing, sculpture, toe dancing, tango, violin, piano, singing...