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Women. For some reason scientists do not like women in their deliberations or public shows. The American Philosophical Society, which is tycoonish and social as well as scientific, this year elected among 25 new members Walter Sherman Gifford, Frank Billings Kellogg, Dwight Whitney Morrow, Adolph Simon Ochs, John Davison Rockefeller Jr. But no women. Last woman admitted was Agnes Repplier, 73, author and Laetare Medalist, in 1928. Before her was Annie Jump Cannon, 67, Harvard's patient star recorder...
Into the address which he was to read to the annual Associated Press luncheon in Manhattan this week, President Walter Sherman Gifford of American Telephone & Telegraph Co., largest corporation in the land, had the wit to put a paragraph which the Press would surely quote...
Alert Dr. Frank Horace Vizetelly, famed lexicographer, had remarks to make about a word used in a radioration recently by Mrs. Gifford Pinchot, wife of the Governor of Pennsylvania. The word was "radiorator." Said Dr. Vizetelly: "The lady probably pronounced it radiorator but . . . my feeling is that the general public would pronounce it radiorator? which would be a horrible thing...
...alert United Press interviewed business leaders who attended the 1929 White House conferences, discovered an agreement among them that Industry, by & large, had lived up to its wage pledge. Pierre Samuel Du Pont (I. E. du Pont de Nemours & Co.), Walter Sherman Gifford (American Telephone & Telegraph). Jesse Isidor Straus (R. H. Macy & Co.) declared their companies had not reduced their wage scales since 1929. Walter Clark Teagle said his Standard Oil of New Jer sey had found it necessary to cut workers' weekly earnings by part-time employment but that the base pay rate had been maintained. Distinctly...
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...