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Pleased last week with the world, the flesh and the U. S. Supreme Court were Gustavus F. Swift, Robert H. Cabell, Edward Aloysius Cudahy, Edward Foss Wilson, all U. S. packers of meat. In November 1933, the U. S. Government begar collecting a pork-processing tax. Set at $2.25 per cwt. of pig slaughtered, the tax yielded $255,000,000 by June 1935. Then packers went to court, got injunctions against further tax collections until AAA's constitutionality could be determined. The special tax funds, in escrow, awaited the Supreme Court's decision. Last fortnight the AAA became...
...last week, while two polio sergeants saw to it that nothing more potent than personalities were exchanged, the anti-Kemp factor won a completely decisive victory. Headed by Alphonso Lyn Ivey, ousted from the presidency in October, they got rid of Kemp-President F. Swift Gibson, Kemp-Vice President Gustavus Ober Jr., and eight Kemp directors, including Boss Kemp himself. Then Mr. Ivey went back into the presidency, along with the men who had served under him as vice president and as treasurer, precisely restoring the status quo ante...
...Alphonso Lynn Ivey tried to oust dictator-like Director George S. Kemp. At a special stockholders' meeting they failed to muster a quorum of 365,875 shares of common and both classes of preferred stock. They did have a quorum of the 7% prior preferred, but Vice President Gustavus Ober adjourned the meeting. Still displeased, the Ivey faction held a rump session, debated what to do next. Dictator Kemp held his saddle by a margin of 62,709 shares...
...antique dealer named Fahim Joseph Kouchakji, who is careful not to claim too much for his cup. As exhibited last week, it is referred to only as the Great Chalice of Antioch, but Mr. Kouchakji has published at his own expense a vast two-volume monograph by famed Antiquary Gustavus Augustus Eisen, which gives the reader much to think about...
...Three sons of famed fathers-George Howard Earle IV, Walter Sherman Gifford Jr., Gustavus Franklin Swift Jr.- and some 1,000 other Harvard freshmen heard President James Bryant Conant advise: "Even during your college career you will find groups of propagandists outside the University ready to use you for their own purposes; you will find them to right and to left. . . , There are plenty of people who are willing and anxious to shout, to march, and to wave flags and banners. I do not feel that this type needs reinforcement from the student body...