Word: gifford
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fronts President Hoover's Committee on Unemployment Relief was busy last week. Generalissimo Walter Sherman Gifford was in the second week of his five-week campaign to raise funds locally for Unemployment relief. Meantime the committee's sub-committee on Employment Plans & Suggestions drafted a 6,000-word document telling the U. S. what it must do to lift itself out of the Depression...
...Postmaster General Brown authorized the hiring of 176,205 extra employes to handle Christmas mail. C. Governor Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania planned to establish relief camps for the jobless, to put them to work building roads...
...signified their intention of taking part in two post-season football tournaments to be staged in New Haven and New York for the benefit of unemployment relief, according to an announcement released here tonight by E. K. Hall, a member of the national relief committee headed by Walter S. Gifford and chairman of the national Football Rules Committee...
Steel, Copper, Rubber, Motors. Thus the greatest argument in U. S. business for the past year was settled. Many a potent industrialist is still against reductions, including President Walter Sherman Gifford of American Telephone & Telegraph who carries great weight on the U. S. Steel directorate. But with Steel taking the lead, other companies rushed to follow. Bethlehem Steel Corp. and Youngstown Sheet & Tube followed suit so precipitously as to suggest that they had settled the argument long ago, were merely awaiting a strong lead to follow. As more and more steel companies were added to the list, absences became conspicuous...
...reductions and the movement continued spreading throughout the week. Labor was being deflated on a large scale for the first time in the current Depression. In addition to protesting Laborites and politicians (see p. 13), many a voice was heard condemning the move, hoping it would be halted. Mr. Gifford did not elaborate his reasons for opposing, and special factors may prejudice Mr. Gifford's case (he is National Relief Director; American Telephone & Telegraph was earning its dividend; A. T. & T.'s wages are indirectly fixed by public service commissions; political goodwill is essential...