Word: giffords
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pennsylvania's coal-mining Fayette County heard the tramp of soldier feet last week for the first time since the great strike of 1922. Three hundred guardsmen were marched in under orders from Governor Gifford Pinchot which amounted to martial law. Eight thousand striking coal miners looked on stolidly as a week of petty riots and bloodshed ended in peace, only to flare up again in a rash of nasty fights which spread the general disorder into adjoining counties, stopping work in at least 30 collieries...
...Sound joins the Atlantic, many another fisherman has gone there for the sport, preferring cool Montauk to torrid Cuba in the summer months. Many a Florida fishing captain works out of Montauk every year now. The ablest ones include Captains Bill Hatch, Bill Fagan, Howard Lance, Charlie Thompson, Tom Gifford...
...this cheap dress & shirt work is done in tenement homes, no reliable figures are available of children employed or wages paid. In a Brooklyn factory lately investigators found 5-year-old girls making 6f an hour ($2.78 per week) threading and sponging pants. In Pennsylvania last May Mrs. Gifford Pinchot, wife of the Governor, took to the picket line as a protest against the exploitation of young girls in Northampton and Allentown shirt factories. Employers seduced 15-year-olds-or fired them. When a plant was fined for violating the State working code, the boss would take the fine...
...with African settings (see cut) his mind is likely to be on the evidences of primitive mankind in Africa. As a scientific man of God, he is shrewd, erudite, pragmatical. The impact of science on the views of Bishop Barnes has lately produced a thick book, compilation of the Gifford Lectures he delivered at the University of Aberdeen in 1927-29.* Bishop Barnes recalls that at one point in the 19th Century, science seemed about ready to crowd out religion. But science is not yet free of error or boundless in scope. Bishop Barnes travels its length, then looks toward...
Harvard men prominent in other fields of endeavor who wrote are: Gamaliel Bradford '86, Van Wyck Brooks '08, W. R. Castle '00, Simon Flexner '06, W. S. Gifford '05, Walter Hampden '00, Charles Evans Hughes LL.D. '10, Walter Lippmann '10, Kenneth MacGowan '11, Benton Mackaye '00, Andrew W. Mellon hon. '26, Ogden L. Mills '05, D. S. Muzzey '93, General Pershing LL.D. '20, William Lyon Phelps A.M. '91, Owen D. Young LL.D...