Word: gifford
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next day the Steel Corporation announced a $3-per-ton reduction in rails. Bethlehem Steel Corp. as usual followed the leader and offered rails at $40-per-ton. Lest there be thoughts that a collusion existed, Bethlehem's Eugene Gifford Grace explained: "Whatever price for rails we find being asked ... we will of course meet."† Although the cut amounts to only 7%, on the basis of the average for the past eight years' orders, will mean a saving of only $4,352,000 to the railroads, the steel industry sat back hopefully awaiting a deluge of orders...
...special emergency session to start January 30, 1933, and continue to August 16, is being announced today by the Graduate School of Business Administration. This action was taken in view of the unemployment of a large number of young executives, who have lost their positions. W. S. Gifford '04, J. I. Straus '93, and George Whitney '07, in recommending the plan, pointed out that the school's facilities for constructive business training must be made available this winter as a substitute for the demoralizing effect of waiting for jobs...
...President Hoover held another relief conference at the White House last week to mobilize private charity to carry the jobless through another winter. In 1930 he set up for this purpose an organization headed by Col. Arthur Woods. Last year Walter Sherman Gifford (American Telephone & Telegraph) was drafted by the White House for relief duty. This year Newton Diehl Baker is chairman of the Welfare & Relief Mobilization Conference composed of 29 organizations like the Y M. C. A., the Salvation Army, the Boy Scouts, the Camp Fire Girls, the Association of Community Chests & Councils, the Jewish Welfare Board. Mr. Baker...
...film actor; and Virginia Helen Briggs (Virginia Bruce), 21, film actress; in Hollywood. His three earlier wives: Olivia Burwell, Leatrice Joy, Ina Claire. Separated. Sacha Guitry, actor, famed as "the perfect lover"; and Yvonne Printemps, actress; in Paris. Seeking Divorce. Rosamond Pinchot Gaston, niece of Pennsylvania's Governor Gifford Pinchot; from William Gaston, Manhattan lawyer. With her to Reno went her brother Gifford Pinchot II, seeking divorce from Janine Voisin Pinchot, daughter of a French automobile manufacturer...
Died. Sir Alan Vandenbempde Johnstone, 73, British diplomat, husband of Pennsylvania Governor Gifford Pinchot's sister Antoinette; after an operation; in London. Among his diplomatic posts: the British Embassy at Washington in 1892, British Minister at The Hague...