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Professor Charles Townsend Copeland, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric, emeritus, was honorary judge, and Vernon H. Struck, Senior class second marshal, presided over the program. Judges for the competition were John H. Finley, Jr. '25, assistant professor of Greek and Latin, Gustavus H. Maynadier '89, assistant professor of English, emeritus, Bliss Perry, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English, emeritus, Joseph R. Hamlen '04, and the Hon. Eliot Wadsworth...
...represent the greatest aggregation of white-tied wealth and power ever assembled under one roof. Scheduled to decorate the head tables along with such non-capitalists as Eddie Rickenbacker, Bishop Manning, Bruce Barton and Sinclair Lewis, are such household industrial names as Owen D. Young, Lammot du Pont, Packer Gustavus F. Swift, Soapman S. Bayard Colgate, Oilman William Stamps Parish, Camelman S. Clay Williams, Steelman Eugene Grace. Copperman Louis Shattuck Gates and many and many another manager of major corporations. Even the rank & file clustered at the common tables will read like a Directory of Directors. And through the rich...
...from outside the family. But by that time the country's biggest packer had so many top offices that there were not enough Swifts to go round, and three non-Swift vice presidents were elected. Last week Vice President John Holmes, 46, was upped to the presidency, succeeding Gustavus F. Swift, who moved into one of two new vice-chairmanships...
...would insist that he is an outsider only genealogically, for he has worked for Swift & Co. since he was 15. And the Swifts would insist that Swift & Co. is not being run by an outsider by a long shot. Charles H. Swift stays as chair-man of the board. Gustavus F. Swift and Harold H. Swift, as vice chairmen, intend to let Mr. Holmes take care of the routine matters involved in managing a business which sells nearly a billion dollars worth of meat and provisions annually and is expected to make as much money this year as last when...
Died. Louis Franklin Swift, 75, onetime President of Swift & Co. (packers), brother of Swift's present President Gustavus Franklin 2d, Board Chairman Charles Henry, Vice President Harold Higgins and Director George Hastings; after long illness; in Chicago...