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...Vivacious Patricia Reilly ("Pat") Foster was appointed editrix to succeed Editor Harold Norling ("Swanie") Swanson who resigned June i to become story editor of RKO films in Hollywood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Collegiana | 8/8/1932 | See Source »

Believing that Chicago citizens are holding out $200,000,000 in taxes due. the teachers moved independently last week to get $20,000,000 owing them. They put on badges labeled "Unpaid Teachers," held a mass meeting in Grant Park. They demanded that State's Attorney John A. Swanson investigate and prosecute individuals and organizations engaged in "tax strikes." (They mentioned the Association of Real Estate Taxpayers as a prominent example.) They demanded that Federal District Attorney George Emmerson Q. Johnson prosecute taxpayers who claimed credit in income tax returns for local taxes not paid. Should appeals fail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Union in North Carolina | 7/25/1932 | See Source »

...teachers did not get their money last week, but three moves were made to break the tax jam: 1) County Judge Edmund Kasper Jarecki announced he would consider no protested tax bill unless the protester first pays 60% of the amount due; 2) State's Attorney Swanson began investigating the Association of Real Estate Taxpayers, looking for possible grand jury action; 3) County Attorney Hayden N. Bell rendered formal opinion that even though a taxpayers' association seeks a lawful object it is, within the meaning of the law, conspiring criminally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Union in North Carolina | 7/25/1932 | See Source »

...proposed "complete disarmament" (TIME, Dec. 5, 1927). Having been cut at the present Conference by all the U. S. Delegates, Comrade Litvinov enjoyed smirking: "My Government favors complete disarmament, it favors partial disarmament, it favors qualitative, quantitative and real disarmament of every kind." (That day U. S. Delegate Senator Swanson so far unbent as to chat for two minutes with Red Litvinov...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: President Proposes | 7/4/1932 | See Source »

...Berlin to make pictures in Russian. Her work in Karamazov got her a UFA contract. She made two pictures in German, then a French version of Karamazov after studying French for three weeks. To convince Producer Goldwyn she took a Berlin screen test-a bit from Gloria Swanson's role in Indiscretion, which she recited in English. Anna Sten, 22, came to the U. S. accompanied by her German husband (Dr. Eugen Franke) but not by her Russian dog, Drushka ("Little Friend''). Said she (in German): "The night I was leaving he [Drushka] ran away to keep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 9, 1932 | 5/9/1932 | See Source »

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