Word: giffords
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Died. Gifford Alexander Cochran, 50, sportsman, onetime president of Alexander Smith & Sons, Yonkers, N. Y. carpet manufacturers; of hardening of the arteries, heart disease and acute alcoholism; in Manhattan. Retired from business, he was famed as the owner of many a great horse. In 1925 his Coventry and Flying Ebony (Earl Sande up) won two great races, the Preakness and the Kentucky Derby. In the past year his string (including Epithet, The Beasel, Flying Heels) won $147,920. In racing and in polo he was an associate of the late Harry Payne Whitney (TIME, Nov. 3). Afflicted last year with...
...time in 105 years, this year's show was limited to work by members and associate members of the Academy. Nobody objected. Critics looked at 391 works of art, all by Academicians, found praiseworthy a canvas by Way man Adams, some prints by Albert Sterner, John Taylor Arms, Gifford Seal, and a sculpture of bantam cocks by Mahonri Mackintosh Young...
...name well known to readers of Manhattan crime news. Chief counsel for defense was George Gordon Battle, noted Manhattan lawyer, attorney for the New York Stock Exchange. Other parts were taken by professionals, notably including Rosamond (The Miracle) Pinchot Gaston, socialite niece of Pennsylvania's Governor-elect Gifford Pinchot, in the role of the accused, lovely "Vivienne Ware." For promotion purposes the case was submitted to a jury, the mystery left unsolved. The jurors, of course, were the radio public. Money prizes were offered by the American for the best-reasoned "verdicts" on either side...
Madge Kennedy, playing in Michael & Mary at Boston, was bruised about the face in an automobile accident while returning from the Gloucester home of Inventor John Hays Hammond Jr. in the company of William Gaston, husband of Rosamond Pinchot (niece of Governor- elect Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania). Miss Kennedy was treated at a hospital under the name of "Mary Campbell of Los Angeles...
Pennsylvania. "Wholehearted" was perhaps not the word for the support which the Mellons gave Gifford Pinchot, though it accurately described the non-support he got from Philadelphia's Boss Vare and Railroader William Wallace Atterbury. For weeks it had seemed that John M. Hemphill, a Democrat-"Liberal" with Beer, Business and a little black toothbrush on his lips, would be the anointed one and make Pennsylvania history. Yet when Allegheny County's (the Mellons') votes were counted, there were 70,000 extra for Pinchot?the backlog of his 50,000 statewide majority?and Theodore Roosevelt's forester was returned...