Word: gifford
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Frissell, Yale '26, nephew of Governor Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania, discovered the Grenfell River and Yale Falls in Labrador. Sargent was Harvard...
Praiseworthy were Gifford Beal's Men with Lobster Pots; Leon Krolls portrait of a baby; Lizabeth Paxton's Deshabille; Ernest Lawson's Colorado Ranch. Of the show as a whole, New York Times Critic Edward Alden Jewell commented: "It often seems as if these artists had been snowed under in the blizzard of 1888-whose 43rd anniversary has just been marked-and emerging at last from the drifts were to be seen taking up life again just where they left it. Most of the sculpture is too discouraging for words...
...Unpleasant to Chairman Schwab is the successful way in which Cyrus Stephen Eaton has blocked Bethlehem's attempts to merge with Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. Unpleasant to Chairman Schwab has been the recent challenge of minority stockholders who decry the bonus plan which in 1929 gave President Eugene Gifford Grace $1,623,000 and that much again to lesser executives. Of this latter unpleasantness, a phase which developed last week must have been particularly unpleasant to Chairman Schwab. To each of Bethlehem's 40,000 shareholders he had to send a long account of why he approved...
...accordance with his pre-election pledge, Governor Gifford Pinchot* last week announced that when the 1,100 Coal & Iron police commissions expire on June 30 they will not be renewed. "I recognize," said he, "the necessity for police protection in these regions [chiefly the State's western industrial centres], but I believe it should be provided under conditions which will make such outrages as the Barcoski killing forever impossible...
Shadow Over Bethlehem. In Bethlehem, Pa. last week all the plant managers and sales managers of Bethlehem Steel Corp. gathered for their annual conference. At the big dinner Chairman Charles Michael Schwab and President Eugene Gifford Grace spoke. Not discussed officially, but the subject of many a private argument, was a $36,000,000 suit the shadow of which lay athwart the Messrs. Schwab & Grace...