Word: gifford
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Walter Sherman Gifford succeeded the late George Fisher Baker as a member of the finance committee of United States Steel Corp. Sewell Lee Avery, president of U, S, Gypsum Co. filled the vacancy on Steel's directorate left by Banker Baker...
Cyrus Stephen Eaton of Cleveland, the man who blocked the Youngstown merger, was the man who caused the bonus war. What justification was there, he had asked to know, for paying as high as $1,623,753 in one year (1929) to President Eugene Gifford Grace? Minority shareholders echoed Mr. Eaton in surprise and indignation. Chairman Charles Michael Schwab, who had issued the bonuses in his discretion (but never taken one himself), pleaded with tears in his eyes and a catch in his voice for the shareholders to "drop it, drop it" (TIME, April 27). Last week, having altered...
Pinchot Patching. Meanwhile, what was Governor Gifford Pinchot, outspoken foe of "the interests," doing? With a sly dig at his predecessor, John S. Fisher, said he: "I recognize the terrible condi- tions in the mining district. They were bad when I was in office before [1923-27], I arbitrated the anthracite strike and conditions were improved there. After I went out of office, conditions got worse. ... I have no power over the judges and the injunctions they grant [against picketing]. I have no power to prevent evictions [of miners from company-owned houses]. I have no power to stop...
...command of Prohibition campaigns, that churches were the only rallying places for the 18th Amendment. To secularize the Dry cause became the purpose of Allied Forces. Dr. Poling called it a "new deal." Among its sponsors was no long list of churchmen but such names as Thomas Alva Edison, Gifford Pinchot, Jane Addams, Evangeline Booth, Patrick Henry Callahan, Oliver Wayne Stewart, Raymond Robins, William Gibbs McAdoo, Orrin R. Judd...
Governor Roosevelt was followed in the afternoon by Pennsylvania's Republican Governor Gifford Pinchot. The program committee had assigned him a safe and sane topic: "Timber Needs of the Future." This he swept aside to launch into a tirade against public utilities, his favorite political theme. He warned the Governors of the political domination of the Power Trust. He named four groups: Mellon-Morgan, Insull, North American, Harris-Forbes. These, he said, generated about 95% of U. S. electricity. He predicted their merger into one colossal combination. Excerpts from a speech which got the biggest applause...