Word: gifford
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Youngstown: "What'll you pay us for our property?" said grizzled old James Anson Campbell, founder-president of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. to suave, cool-headed Eugene Gifford Grace, president of Bethlehem Steel Corp., one day last February. Thus informally, according to Mr. Grace's testimony last week, was negotiated the Bethlehem-youngstown merger, to prevent which Cyrus Stephen Eaton of Cleveland, big Youngstown stockholder, has had his lawyers at work for 16 weeks in an epochal fight (TIME, March 24 et seq.). Mr. Grace's testimony supplied many another lively item last week. He told...
...give a damn" what he had said in other depositions, that he "didn't care" what he may have testified to, that he was now trying to tell the truth as he understood it. In April Mr. Campbell had said that on Jan. 2 he told President Eugene Gifford Grace of Bethlehem that Youngstown was free to negotiate with Bethlehem because a pending Youngstown-Inland Steel Co. merger had been called off. As a matter of fact, the Youngstown-Inland merger was not officially abandoned until...
Opposed to Secretary Davis was Senator Grundy, high tariff advocate, seeking to retain the seat to which Governor Fisher had appointed him after the Vare rejection. Gifford Pinchot, onetime (1923-27) Governor, crusading Dry, ran as a rural independent against Mr. Brown for the gubernatorial nomination. The Mellon faction in Pittsburgh supported Messrs. Brown and Grundy. An informal Pinchot-Grundy alliance existed to combat the Vare ticket...
...distinguished roll of people who have served in residence at the institution, among them: Prime Minister William. Lyon MacKenzie King of Canada; President Gerard Swope of General Electric Co., who met his wife (Mary Dayton Hill) at Hull-House; Vice President B. E. Hutchinson of Chrysler Corp.; President Walter Gifford of American Telephone & Telegraph Co.; Editor Paul Underwood Kellogg of The Survey; Editor William Ludlow Chenery of Cottier's Weekly; Julia Clifford Lathrop, first chief of the U. S. Children's Bureau; Editor Harriet Monroe of Poetry...
...grown rich in public utilities (oil and coal), he is large, rotund, married, father of five. His hair is grey, his face florid, his manner genial and approachable. He is running as an out-&-out Wet for the repeal of his State's enforcement act. Opposing him are Gifford Pinchot, a crusading Dry, and Francis Shunk Brown supported by both the Mellon and Vare factions of the G. O. P. Mr. Brown has declared for a Prohibition referendum, is classed as a political weasler on this issue...