Word: gifford
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senator George William Norris of Nebraska, Governors Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania and Roosevelt of New York, to whom dripping Wet Governor Ritchie may have referred, are all stanch proponents of Government-owned or Government-regulated Power. The first two are Drys, the third a muted...
...Keep the children in school!" was the warning three weeks ago of Frederick Cleveland Croxton, assistant to Generalissimo Walter Sherman Gifford in President Hoover's Unemployment Relief Organization (TIME, Sept. 7). Last week Senator Robert Ferdinand Wagner of New York pointed out that 1,000,000 children under 16 were estimated to be holding jobs, that in 1930 some 103,000 14-and-15-year-olds left school to work. "That is a condition which ought not to continue...
When bankers gathered in Manhattan last month to choose a chairman for the New York Unemployment Relief Committee under National Chairman Walter Sherman Gifford, they picked Banker Gibson. Last week, besides leading his big band of banks, he was busy getting ready an organization to help his city face the Winter. He was easily Wall Street's man of the week...
...California, Michigan, Illinois. Connecticut, New York and Delaware notified the President that they were prepared to finance their own relief this winter. To 2,500 local committees Generalissimo Gifford sent out as "model plans" the relief programs adopted by Rochester, Chicago, Wilmington, Indianapolis and Milwaukee. The President announced that 39,000 men were now employed on Federal building (7/10 of 1% of all jobless), that by Jan. 1 he hoped 100,000 would be thus engaged (1 6/10 % of all jobless). ¶ In California has circulated a report that President Hoover is a heavy stockholder in South American oil companies...
...Gifford Pinchot, wife of Pennsylvania's Governor, applied for permission to carry a gun, explained: "I travel at night a good deal...