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While Evans was buying into Briggs, he picked up the facilities of four firms-Chapman Valve Manufacturing Co., National-U.S. Radiator Corp., Swartwout Co. and Pipe Fabricators. When Briggs directors flatly turned down his offer to buy Briggs outright, Evans (through Crane) bought 21% of Briggs's common stock, the largest single block. He was all set to elect at least part of an "independent board" of his own choice, which was likely to be more amenable to his taking over. But the court found that Evans' attempt to take over Briggs may violate antitrust laws, blocked...
...Levy did his work on Fisk for Richard H. Swartwout, chairman of the new board, who once described himself as a "selector of presidents." During his investment banking days he helped reorganize many a defunct or tottering enterprise: Union Bag & Paper Corp., American-La France Fire Engine Co., Norfolk Southern Railroad, Intertype Corp., Dictaphone Corp., Ansco Photo-products, Inc. Twice he and his friends had working control of Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad, sold out both times at a profit. Backer Swartwout said Fisk's plans for a new selling campaign would not be ready for several months...
...crass outsider did not comprehend this Latin irony, the Cambridge Union was cosily content. Soon with even heavier irony a Cambridge lightweight rose to defend Chicago. Small, spindly Debater Robert Egerton Swartwout (he weighs 105 Ib.) boomed out in an amazing bass voice. The same voice last year barked the Cambridge crew to victory over Oxford (TIME, April 21, 1930). Swartwout was Cambridge's first U. S. coxswain. Son of Manhattan Architect Egerton Swartwout, he went to Cambridge (Trinity College) seven years ago, became a wit, contributed to Punch. Also he developed the ironic humor that is the pride...
...Harrod's wharf and under Hammersmith Bridge Oxford was in front and round the bend into rough water and a wind that thinned the falling drops. Over the flat banks of the Stork, that tiny island past the first bridge, the wind spread whitening fans upstream, and Robert Swartwout, U. S. coxswain of the Cambridge boat, veered over toward the bank, looking for shelter. The water was white all the way to Corney Reach, at the second bend, but Oxford felt the wind most; Cambridge was closing up, and going to Barnes Bridge little Swartwout's barks quickened...
...Roosevelt Memorial is at the end of this axis; the edifice, when erected, will be this required balance, this terminal. Those who have been invited to submit designs are: Architects William B. Faville, C. Grant La Farge, McKim, Meade & White, Charles Platt, Irving K. Pond, John Russell Pope, Egerton Swartwout, York & Sawyer; Sculptors Herbert Adams, Carl Akeley, James E. Eraser, John Gregory, C. P. Jenne-wein, Lorado Taft; Landscape Experts James L. Greenleaf, Charles N. Lowrie, Frederick Law Olmsted, Ferruccio Vitale...
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