Word: giffords
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Serving from 1909 to 1919 under four Secretaries of Interior (Garfield, Ballinger, Fisher, Lane) Andrew Christensen had charge of investigation of all public land matters in Alaska, notably the coal land cases which caused bitter controversy between Secretary Ballinger and Gifford Pinchot, then head of the Forest Service. Later he directed construction of the Alaska Railroad from Seward to Fairbanks...
...Commerce's Business Advisory & Planning Council, which has lately emerged as one of the most potent business lobbies in Washington. Composed of much bigger business wigs than the rank & file of Chambermen-men like U. S. Steel's Myron Taylor, American Telephone & Telegraph's Walter Gifford, Chase National Bank's Winthrop Aldrich, General Electric's Gerard Swope-the so-called Roper Council drops into the White House for frequent Sunday evening chats. Radicals regard it suspiciously as a hotbed of Fascism...
...clock, while Rasmussen will pitch for the schoolboys, who are favored on the basis of their earlier 3-2 defeat of the Freshmen. HARVARD 1938 EXETER Larcom, g. g., Irving Magurn, p. p., Brookings Scott, c.pt. c.pt., Happer Mckellar, 1d. 1d., Feeley Cobb, 2d. 2d., Iason Campion, c. c., Gifford Hunsaker, J., 2a. 2a., Downey Sutro, 1a. 1a., Roche Hunsaker, P., c.h. c.h., Taliaferro Derby, i.h. i.h., Suman...
...Long Distance Building of American Telephone & Telegraph Co. in Manhattan, President Walter Sherman Gifford picked up a receiver, asked to speak to Vice President Theodore Gazlay Miller. Fifty feet away in another office sat Vice President Miller. But the operator plugged President Gifford in on Dixon, Calif. There a short-wave radio transmitter amplified his voice some millions of times, "sprayed" it over the Pacific. At Java a Dutch station picked up the Gifford voice, blew it up another billion times, broadcast it on to Amsterdam. Under the North Sea it went by cable to London, then Rugby. Sprayed overseas...
...Every three months, just before the directors meet for dividend action, Wall Street nervously debates the possibility of a dividend cut. But with $250,000,000 in cash & Government bonds and surplus still above $400,000,000, A. T. & T. manages to stand the strain. Last week President Gifford was almost sanguine on the business outlook. Telephones in use registered a net gain of 112,000 in the three-month period, jumped another 22,500 in the first two weeks of April...