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...Philadelphia, Chiropodist Edward Joseph Girard, 51, announced that his six-year standing offer of $100 to anyone who would find an eight-leaf clover was no longer valid, that he had just awarded the prize to himself. Still standing is Chiropodist Girard's offer of $500 for a nine-leaf clover...
Claiming the title of "Clover-Collecting Champion of the World," Chiropodist Girard in 20 years has found hundreds of four-leafers, scores of fivers and sixers, about a dozen seven-leafers. He likes to start a day in the country with a good two hours of clover hunting, between 7 and 9 a. m. when he finds conditions most suitable. His eight-leaf clover was discovered on the grounds of the Pleasant View Christian Science Home at Concord...
...Girard, Ohio...
...year-old pharmacist with cross-eyes and freckles and his hair parted in the middle, with a childish, open smile and a vocabulary of violent radicalism. Tony's mother was U. S. born and he was born in Philadelphia where his father was a professor of Spanish at Girard College, but Tony was Cuba's most violently anti-U. S., anti-imperialist, a focus for the most personal and violent emotions in the highly personal politics of Cuba. When Cuba swung Left after the 1933 revolution, it swung toward Tony and he became Secretary Guiteras of the Army...
Pennsylvania R. R.'s annual meeting was conducted, as it has been for years, by Effingham Buckley Morris, senior director (elected 1896) and chairman of the finance committee. Now 78, head of Philadelphia's big Girard Trust Co. and a civic leader of his community, Chairman Morris has been annoyed at the past few Pennsylvania meetings by what he undoubtedly believes to be sheer impudence. Last year the stockholders wanted to know all about salaries. This year they demanded the details of Pennroad Corp., an ill-starred venture into railroad holding companies...