Word: swetlands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...question first arose in the U. S. in 1822 when a man named Swan crashed his balloon on a Mr. Guille's farm in New York State. Crowds rushed in, spoiled Guille's flowers and the court ordered Swan to pay damages. In 1930, Frederick & Raymond Swetland tried to enjoin Curtiss Airports Corp. of Cleveland from infringing on their property rights, claiming that low-flying Curtiss planes disturbed them, by their noise and by dropping leaflets. The court ordered the airmen to cease dropping things. In 1934, on the other hand, Clovis Thrasher sued the city of Atlanta...
Peddie's longtime Headmaster Roger Williams Swetland died of ripe old age last autumn. In 36 years he had covered the campus at Hightstown, N. J., with new buildings, made his school the pride of U. S. Baptists and a major feeder for Princeton. Last week Peddie, too, got a religious, athletic new headmaster in the Rev. Wilbour E. Saunders, Secretary of the Rochester (N. Y.) Federation of Churches, onetime pastor of Brooklyn's Marcy Avenue Baptist Church. Peddie trustees knew they were choosing a man whose study at Cambridge had given him a strong enthusiasm...
...countryside famed for pheasants, applejack, cabbages, antique furniture and Princeton University, lies a place called Hightstown, N.J., seat of Peddie Institute, foremost Baptist institution of secondary learning in the country (enrollment: 355). Last week aged Headmaster Roger W. Swetland and Peddie's trustees and alumni were mortified by the unfavorable publicity which three Peddie boys had brought upon their school. In the dead of night three students-August F. Ballbach, 16, Harold G. Newman, 18, Ralph W. Hamn, 16-stole out of the school grounds. For the past three weeks this trio had been enjoying nefarious nocturnal outings unbeknown...
...greater import to airport operators is the decision in Swetland v. Ohio Air Terminals (Curtiss-Wright subsidiary) from which defendants were last week preparing an appeal. The Swetlands (Frederick and Raymond), who for 25 years have occupied a country estate near Richmond Heights, Ohio, asked an injunction against the airport, which was constructed across the road from them last year. Judge George P. Hahn upheld the right of the airport to operate, but enjoined its planes from flying lower than 500 ft. over the Swetland's property even in taking off or landing...