Word: swiftly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Flames leaped from pen to pen, scorched cattle, sheep and hogs, threatened the huge packing plants of Swift & Co. and Armour & Co., sprang at the big Livestock Exchange. Up went the Dexter Pavilion, scene of many a great livestock exposition. Up went the old Stockyards Inn, where generations of packing tycoons had dined and done their deals. Up went the Saddle and Sirloin Club, the Department of Agriculture Building, two banks and a radio station. Up went an elevated station. Aviators over South Bend, Ind. 95 mi. away, could see the tall pillar of smoke...
...Elijah Swift, Jr. 2G has taken all the prizes in the exhibit of pictures of Harvard scenes which is being held this week by the Harvard Photographic Society. After the photographs with names concealed, were judged by Arthur Hammond and Ralph Schein, well-known professional photographers it was discovered that Swift's photographs had won first, second, and third prizes, with two photographs of Adams House, and one of Lowell House Tower...
...Cornell in Iowa, to the Festival at Ann Arbor. Usually thereafter he sails for Germany to bathe at the spas, hunt up new scores. But this year, for the sake of Chicago's musical reputation, he will conduct through half of July in the outdoor arena built by Swift & Co. for the second World's Fair. Between engagements Stock usually goes to his house in northern Wisconsin where he walks a bit, mulls over early French literature, tinkers at cabinetmaking, writes music technically sound but emotionally unexciting. Conductor Stock prides himself on his restraint. His men have never...
...talk in Washington and rocketing grain markets in Chicago, the stock-market gave scant heed. Behind this paradox of rising business and falling stocks bulked one large fact: the indexes of trade are written in the past tense. By last week John Businessman was ready to admit that the swift pace of the spring advance had definitely slackened. For the stockmarket's sorry performance inflationists blamed dollar stabilization and brokers blamed the threat of regulation. But more disinterested observers laid it to the flattening curve on the business chart. Trade was still far above last year but the amazing...
...Roosevelt program leads us to recovery or chaos, to widespread prosperity or national ruin, let no one say that Roosevelt lacked the courage of his convictions. . . ." The Author- James Paul Warburg, 37, is vice chairman of the Bank of the Manhattan Co., co-author with his wife Katherine ("Kay") Swift of "Can't We Be Friends?" and "Up Among the Chimney Pots." Born in Germany and educated at Harvard he did much of the early spadework for the London Conference. Since his exit from the national stage, he has been a prime leader in the fight against inflation...