Word: gifford
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That question was the most important one put last week to Walter Sherman Gifford, generalissimo of President Hoover's new Organization on Unemployment Relief.† It was popped by one of 40 Dole-conscious newsmen who faced Generalissimo Gifford down a long polished table in Secretary of Commerce Lament's office. A positive "yes," Mr. Gifford knew, was an answer that would greatly please President Hoover. But the President's relief director was determined to be more than a White House echo. Carefully he replied...
...White House Pennsylvania's Governor Gifford Pinchot sent a letter requesting the President to call a special session of Congress for Unemployment relief. Wrote he:"Wages are decreasing. Distress is acute . . . you have yourself asked for appropriations by Congress for relief of the needy in distant parts of the world. It would seem to be most opportune that you should do no less for our own needy here at home." Flaying his Governor for such a demand, Pennsylvania's Senator David Aiken Reed retorted, as an Administration spokesman: "Governors should not and must not evade their responsibility...
Birthdays. Julius Rosenwald (69); Amos Alonzo Stagg (69) ; Gifford Pinchot (66); Mary Roberts Rinehart (55); Nathalia Crane...
...Acute suffering in Pennsylvania moved sad-eyed Governor Gifford Pinchot to appeal for Red Cross aid three weeks ago. American Red Cross Chairman John Barton Payne refused, regretted he could help only in disasters due to "act of God." Governor Pinchot sighed and went off fishing. The Press was full of horrid details of hungry Pennsylvania families awaiting eviction from squalid shacks; of small children, denied milk, eating dandelions...
Virginia politicians last week demanded of Virginia's Governor John Garland Pollard why he went out of the State to pick a successor for Virginia's first and only State Commissioner of Health, Dr. Ennion Gifford Williams who, 61, died last month. Governor Pollard usually is amiable. But continuous political pestering on this subject has put a chip on his shoulder. His thin lips snapped this retort...