Word: swampscott
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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National American Legion champion, Jeanne Ladd of Swampscott, has already indicated her willingness to throw over Swampscott High for a Harvard affiliation, saying "they're nice boys; they generally get what they want?" Other fast-stepping twirlers are expected to follow Jeanne's lead...
Harvard Club of Lynn: John F. Chaisson '39, of Swampscott...
...Deland, Jr. '36, of Jamaica Plain, assistant to the director of athletics; Phillippe Dur '35, of New York; Marcel Francon, instructor in romance languages, of Cambridge; Rolline McC. Gallagher '34, of Milton; James E. Gardner, Jr. '36, of Ardsley-on-Hundson, N. Y.; Richard B. Johnson '36, of Swampscott; John Lydenberg, of Scarsdale, N. Y.; Woods McCahill '37, of Willoughby, O.; Knight W. McMahan '33, assistant in Philosophy, of Flora, Ill.; Thomas L. Mikules '30, assistant in English, of Boston; Branford P. Millar '35, assistant in English, of Cambridge; Malcolm D. Perkins '36, of Milton; Joseph H. Phillips...
Mathew Town, largest island village. Armed natives blamed Josiah Erickson of Swampscott, Mass., co-owner of Inagua's $500,000 salt factory, for the issuance of the order. They stormed the Erickson West Indies store, killed one employe, then roamed the island searching for other "Yankees." The enraged natives fired the store, radio station, salt buildings, the Commissioner's residence, the warehouse. Erickson, four other American residents, Commissioner Fields, eight Negroes grabbed rifles, tear-gas guns, cartridges, shot their way clear to the launch...
Died. Elihu Thomson, 83, co-founder of General Electric Co., onetime (1920-22) acting president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology; after two months' illness; in Swampscott, Mass. A precocious British immigrant who built an electric friction generator out of a wine bottle before he entered high school, Elihu Thomson invented electric welding, the standard three-phase alternating current generator, the centrifugal cream separator, the common watt meter, the street arc lamp; built the first electric locomotive for Baltimore & Ohio Railroad...