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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...elections which have just been held have added the following men to the board: class of February, 1928: Herbert Hoover Jr., H. M. Hubbard, Henry Swift; class of June, 1928: N. A. Bauer, J. J. Canavan, F. C. Carter, Lieutenant A. B. Clark, M. J. Cruickshank, C. E. Dick, W. M. Edens, W. B. Greenman Jr, R. V. Horton, R. M. Hornung, Malcolm McElroy, J. M. Rae, F. H. Schroeder, E. V. Shierling, and Captain James Watson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Graduate Schools | 10/26/1927 | See Source »

...revealed. All Broadway and showbusiness knew him anyway as actor and producer of Sally, Irene, and Mary and Honeymoon Lane. To the public at large he is just another theatrical producer, fortunate in his word-of-mouth advertising. His show is much like his earlier shows; sweet and swift and aimed at the simple public rather than the shrewd. It is all Manhattan life in tinsel musical comedy caricature. The obstreperous Ray Dooley (Mrs. Bowling) makes parts of it hilariously amusing with her squalling childlike tactics. There is one terrible moment when an actor representing Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith (whom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 17, 1927 | 10/17/1927 | See Source »

...Swift & Co. v. the U. S. (Asking to be freed from an agreement to confine activities to meat packing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE JUDICIARY: Supreme Convention | 10/10/1927 | See Source »

Harvard was one of few conspicuous teams to try the new lateral passing game. Swift sidewise tactics bewildered Vermont; forward thrusts scored 21 points...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football Matches: Oct. 10, 1927 | 10/10/1927 | See Source »

Tackling practice tried tempers. Tackling has been called the most valued weapon of a player's arma ment. In games, tackling is the swift answer to an enemy chal lenge; fraught with an emotional energy that softens, psychologically the bumps. In practice, it is a dull business hammering with the shoulders the piston hammers of another man's knees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Signals | 10/3/1927 | See Source »

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