Word: gifford
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...longer ago than 1938, "Market Street" had ladled out a plump $100 per division to knock out old Gifford Pinchot's third try at the Governorship; that fall, when Republican Arthur Horace (Breaker Boy) James tossed the Little New Deal of Governor George H. Earle III out of Harrisburg, Republican committeemen carried rolls of at least $100 per division. And in 1939's mayoralty fight, an alleged cascade of currency from the offices of G. 0. P. City Chairman Jay Cooke won the election between 4 and 6 p.m. with a $100-per-division allotment...
...poor workers, they ought to be happy, but then these Socialist agitators come in and try to make them feel discontented." Attacking income taxation, an instructor once read an item complaining that state and federal taxes consumed most of the $200,000 bonus given to A.T. & T. president Gifford. At another meeting of the class, sentences were quoted from a Washington newspaper which condemned Harold Rugg's social-science textbook series for "breeding a generation of future reds and pinks in our public elementary schools." Other clippings collected by the instructor for the student's edification include attacks on nationwide...
Divorced. Alton Parker Hall, grandson of Presidential Candidate (1904) Alton B. Parker; by Emmeline Marion Grace Hall, daughter of Bethlehem Steel's President Eugene Gifford Grace; after a separation of three years; in Reno...
...nervous Nellie to be panicked into witless sales is tweedy, fiftyish Scot Gifford, Edinburgh solicitor, chairman of eight British investment trusts, director of 22 British companies. Nor will he be a sucker for casual Wall Street advice. Twenty-five percent of the investment portfolios of many British investment trusts is in U. S. securities, and Scot Gifford has long known his way around the Street as well as around the City...
...stock their man's first showcase, the British Government requisitioned outright all British holdings in 60 U. S. stocks. To His Majesty's subjects His Majesty's Government will pay the market price of their securities as of Feb. 17 in sterling. As Scot Gifford sells them here, the British Government will pocket its dollars for future U. S. material purchases, will thus have added to its present hoard of $2,600,000,000 in liquid gold and dollars. On Solicitor Gifford's first list were equities in plenty of profitable U. S. industries -Du Pont...