Word: gifford
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...State dining room plump Mrs. Clayton Douglass Buck was on the President's right because her husky husband runs Delaware, first State to ratify the Constitution. On the President's left in golden spangles, gold shoes and jade earrings was sharp, smart, colorful Mrs. Gifford Pinchot who had just been defeated for Congress in Pennsylvania (see p. 15). On leaving the White House, Governor Roosevelt, always jovial with the Press, when asked what he had discussed with President Hoover, said: "One may not talk when leaving the White House. I've been there before." Governor Pinchot...
When he was on the Wartime Council of National Defense he saw a good deal of Walter Sherman Gifford. After the War, Mr. Gifford saw that Mr. Willard was made a director of American Telephone & Telegraph Co. Mr. Willard saw that Mr. Gifford was made a fellow trustee of Johns Hopkins University...
Bluebird. Only bluebird to chirp out in the committee's gloom was Director Walter Sherman Gifford of the President's own Unemployment Relief Organization. "I am still unable to find any grounds," he declared doggedly, ''for questioning the effectiveness of local, county and State public and private agencies and the thousands of voluntary committees and organizations to meet the present emergency...
Between President Hoover and Governor Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania exists a hearty hostility. Mrs. Hoover and Mrs. Pinchot do not speak when they pass each other on Washington's streets. Yet last week the unusual spectacle was presented of Mrs. Pinchot leaping to political arms in defense of President Hoover...
...auburn-haired Cornelia Pinchot is a consummate politician. Bluntspoken, quick-witted, shrewd, she is quite the peer of her husband on the stump. Outdoorish in her interests, she has landscaped the Pinchot estate, holds a permit to carry a gun (kidnapping threats have been made against her only son, Gifford Jr., 16), goes exploring in khaki shorts. In 1928 she ran against Congressman McFadden, lost the Republican nomination by 2,000 votes. This year she counts on his misbehavior in the House to help bring her victory. Her intelligence and capability would be considerably above the average of the other...