Word: gifford
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Flanked by his Lieutenant Governor, his Attorney General, his Secretary of Revenue, his Secretary of Welfare, the Speaker of the House and four legislative committee chairmen. Governor Gifford Pinchot pleaded his State's desperate condition before the R. F. C. board. Pennsylvania, it was claimed, harbors 1.250,000 jobless on whom some $130,000,000 has been spent locally for relief. The State Government put up $10,000.000 for the county poor districts...
...President Hoover again asked Congress to give him $120,000 to continue the President's Organization on Unemployment Relief, headed by Walter Sherman Gifford, A. T. & T. president. This appropriation was once rejected by Congress as a waste of money. Argued the President: "Should this organization be discontinued, not only would its important functions of stimulation of private giving be destroyed but there would be grave danger of volunteer groups concluding that [their] services were no longer necessary." ¶Vetoed by the President: a $2,100,000,000 unemployment relief bill (see col. 2). ¶President Hoover recommended...
Died. Edwin Follett Carter, 22, Dartmouth graduate, son of Edwin Farnham Carter, vice president of American Telephone & Telegraph Co.; in Brookings, S. Dak. He was on his way to Alaska with Walter Sherman Gifford Jr., 14, son of A. T. & T.'s president. Young Gifford, just learning to drive, failed to note a turn in the road, drove the car into a ditch. Carter was thrown out, his neck broken. Young Gifford, his left arm crushed, was whisked to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn...
Into every crack & corner of Pennsylvania went Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, U. S. M. C. (retired), campaigning for the Republican senatorial nomination. A Dry, he was endorsed by Governor Gifford Pinchot. He made 126 speeches (preceded, he said, by 126 silent prayers). But neither speeches nor prayers availed him. Senator James John ("Puddler Jim") Davis, a Wet supported by Boss Vare's Philadelphia machine, last week won renomination by a 350,000-vote majority...
Bethlehem's President Eugene Gifford Grace spoke at length, declared European steelmakers are dumping their products in the U. S. "I cannot understand the inactivity of our labor friends," he said, "who have not only failed to demand new laws protecting American manufacturers, but have not insisted upon the enforcement of existing laws." Asked for a statement on conditions he said, "at the moment business is no longer falling...