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...these; the Chief of Naval Operations is also interested. And over both is the Secretary of the Navy. But he is exclusively responsible for none of these; the Chief of Naval Operations is also interested. And nominally over both is aging (76), ailing Secretary of the Navy Claude Augustus Swanson. But as often as not these days, Charles Edison is Acting Secretary of the Navy...
...noteworthy history. It was first produced in Paris in 1890, as a vehicle for Gabrielle Réjane. Eight years later, David Belasco used it to further the fabulous career of red-headed Mrs. Leslie Carter. In 1920, Zaza became an opera for Geraldine Farrar. In 1923, Gloria Swanson was Zaza in a silent picture. A favorite item in the repertory of stock-company leading ladies the world over, Zaza has been running off & on ever since Playwrights Pierre Berton and Charles Simon wrote it, has probably alarmed more censors than any other single drama in the 20th Century...
...Secretary of the Navy Swanson he addressed a Navy Day letter declaring: ''The fleet must be ready...
Under the shimmering, kaleidoscopic lights of Omaha's Coliseum, at Nebraska's 44th Coronation Ball of Ak-Sar-Ben*- the social high jinks of the State's big annual autumn festival-the 44th King of Ak-Sar-Ben (William Otto Swanson, ruddy-faced Omaha clothier), clothed in proud embarrassment and silks, was crowned, throned, cheered. Rich, rotund, charitable King Swanson had twice previously (1937, 1938) been decorated by the King of Sweden. Honoring France's liveliest cinemactor with the Legion of Honor, the French Government made him Chevalier Maurice Chevalier...
James Arthur Swanson, Excelsior, Minnesota--Excelsior High School...