Word: swiftness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...major political concession which Dr. Stresemann has sought for years-one for which Germans yearn with a passionate desire not fully realized in other countries-is swift, complete evacuation of the 60,000 Allied troops still occupying the Rhineland. Last week the short, soft fingers of the statesman from Berlin seemed to have virtually within their stubby grasp an Anglo-French agreement to evacuate the Rhineland at the latest...
Hard-headed Ramsay MacDonald insisted that both the workers' unions and the employers' associations bind themselves by signed agreement to accept the ruling of his Arbitral Board of Five. Two arbiters were chosen from each side. Umpire was a sterling Lancashire man, Mr. Justice Rigby Swift of the King's Bench Division of the High Court. Finally the Prime Minister declared that in case of proven need the Government would grant a "temporary accommodation" (presumably a Treasury subsidy) to keep wages at the old level while the industry is getting on its feet...
...Government started anti-trust suits against the four national meat packers-Armour & Co., Swift & Co., Wilson & Co., Cudahy Packing Co. There was no trial, for the packers went into court and consented to having a decree issued forbidding them to deal in other products than meat and its derivatives, likewise forbidding them to establish retail stores. In nine years, two major attempts have been made to have the decree rescinded. The U. S. Supreme Court in all its venerability each time reaffirmed the decree...
Last week a third move was made. Armour and Swift petitioned the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia to modify the decree. Reason: that times have changed. Two arguments they made in chief: 1) that there are now 70,000 chain stores in the country, many of them selling meat. Already the chains are going into meat packing to supply their requirements-one chain already owns two packing plants and a sausage factory. The effect of the decree is therefore not to prevent the large packers from treading on others, but to be trod upon-to make them subject...
...Swift & Co. has emphatically remained a Swift company, though the present Swifts are a second generation. In addition to President Louis F. Swift, there are Vice Presidents E. F. Swift, G. F. Swift, C. H. Swift, H. H. Swift (No. 1 Trustee of the great University of Chicago) and A. B. Swift...