Word: gifford
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Philadelphia, Orlandi Spartaco, whose antiFascism impelled him to jump on the running board of visiting Foreign Minister Dino Grandi's car two months ago and shout insults, was released from jail on $1,000 bail. The Italian statesman had pleaded with Governor Gifford Pinchot to release Zealot Spartaco from a two-year prison sentence...
...Fortnight ago in Philadelphia, one Orlandi Spartaco, 26, jumped on the running board of a car carrying Dino Grandi, Fascist Italy's visiting Foreign Minister. Jabbering, "Down with Grandi! Down with Fascism!" Anti-Fascist Spartaco was dragged off to jail, sentenced to two riot." To years Governor imprisonment Gifford for Pinchot "inciting to last week sleek, smiling, politic Minister Grandi wired : "I have not the slightest intention of interfering with the administration of justice in this country, but I feel that I could make a personal appeal to you to take into consideration the possibility...
...they have happily hit upon a scheme to give their wares the character of a necessity. The American Book-sellers Association and the National Association of Book Publishers have offered to cooperate with the President's Relief Organization. Furthermore, the offer has been flatteringly accepted by Mr. Walter S. Gifford...
...Gifford remarks that these associations can render valuable aid in "making available in libraries and else-where such technical works as would prove most valuable to persons who are using their time to further technical and educational training...
...Walter S. Gifford...