Word: packer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Onwentsia Club, Lake Forest, Ill., Mrs. Edward Foster Swift, relict of the meat packer, gave a Swift family golf tournament, for married members only. Husbands & wives played together. Play was over nine holes; each pair was allowed a handicap, combined net score only to count. Couples paid $10 to play, $20 not to play. Among the entries were the Theodore Philip Swifts, the Edward Swift Juniors, the Charles Henry Swifts. The George Swifts, the Charles Henry Swifts did not play, paid their $20 fines. Prizes were $30 in cash, a silver...
...kidnapping at Alton, 111. one night last week. At 9 p. m., August Luer, 77, and his wife were preparing to retire when two men and a woman appeared at their door, said they wanted to communicate with one of the Luers' neighbors. Mr. Luer, a banker, packer and Alton's first citizen, offered to telephone the neighbor. His slippers flew off as his captors seized and dragged him to a waiting automobile. Mr. Luer's sons, fearful lest their father's serious heart ailment be fatally aggravated by the shock of his capture, broadcast that...
Brown University (Providence, R. I.) U. S. Supreme Court Justice Benjamin Nathan Cardozo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LL.D. President Franklin Winslow Johnson of Colby College (Waterville, Me.). . . LL.D. Harold Higgins Swift, Chicago packer. LL.D. Astronomer Harlow Shapley . . . . . . . . . . . Sc.D. Actress Eva Le Gallienne . . . . . . . . . . . . .Litt.D. Charles Albert Selden, London correspondent of the New York Times . . . . . M.A. Colby College (Waterville, Me.) Bainbridge Colby. Woodrow Wilson's Secretary of State. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LL.D...
...TIME, Dec. 26). Some $25,000 was raised. The Temple idea was abandoned and the $25,000 set aside for concerts to be given in the Auditorium on Wabash Ave. Last week the Chicago Friends manfully started their World's Fair concert season. Soprano Claire Dux, wife of Packer Charles Henry Swift, soloed without pay the opening night, brought the house cheering to its feet. Pianist Rudolph Ganz played next night. Ruth Page and a special corps de ballet danced to Ravel's Bolero night after that. Scheduled for this week is an all-Gershwin concert at which...
Last week, despite the gloomy predictions, the Moravian Trombone Choir climbed to the belfry of Lehigh University's Packer Memorial Chapel, announced the beginning of another Bach Festival. Bach enthusiasts had come from Vermont, Georgia, New York, Minneapolis. Again 240 Bethlehem natives reverently intoned the Mass's pleading Kyrie, the deeply moving Crucifixus, the climactic Et Resurrexit...