Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Presumably under considerable pressure from the agricultural sections, Secretary Wallace of the Department of Agriculture demanded that Swift & Co., the Wilson Packing Co. and the Cudahy Packing Co. give federal auditors full access to their accounts, records, documents. The demand was made for the express purpose of determining how far the companies are buyers and sellers of live stock and products manufactured from live stock, how far they are engaged in interstate commerce, and to audit figures previously submitted to the Government to determine if they are correct...
...real self lies somewhere very deep within. He tends to speak in periods. His words, too, are gestures; this, however, is the world of make-believe and of romance. It is his world. He moves in it serenely and triumphantly. He is a giant of a novelist, a swift spinner of glowing tales, a man with a passion for accomplishment who has been endowed with sufficient vitality to pursue his images to their creation. Long life to him and his vigor...
...Significance. A vivid, swift-footed description of youth's perennial first assault upon life?written with beauty, humor and fire. A younger generation that is not Fitzgerald's treated from a new angle and without professional flapperisms. Faults of course?occasional over-writing?occasional lapses into adolescent unreality?but on the whole a first novel that does not need the usual "displays great promise" critical lifeline?a first novel that should interest a wide and diverse public...
...Chicago Daily Tribune, self-styled "World's Greatest Newspaper," is not afraid to place itself in famous company. Recently it took its stand beside Dean Jonathan Swift, master of the most devastating satire ever known. When Swift wrote his Modest Proposal for disposing of excess Irish population by feeding children of the Irish poor as hors d'oeuvre to the well-to-do, he was taken seriously by his countrymen and for a time ostracized. The Tribune, far from profiting by the Dean's experience, printed instructions on How to Kill a Child...
...English) M. D. His path crossed that of Marny, Lady Geraldine. Her husband was a perfect brute, but she was loyal. Ensued sandstorms, struggles with Arab assassins, lots of noble self-sacrifice, wads of local color. "And with a little cry. . . . she lifted her lips to his." Swift exciting rubbish by the author of The Sheik-a perfect specimen of what used to be called a hammock book. HOMELAND-Margaret Hill McCarter-Harper ($2.00). Jack Lorton, before he went to France, thought Leslie Jannison was going to be his own little Dream-Girl-yes, that was the way he talked...