Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cracked down on the great meat packing house of Swift & Co. Charging "unfair and unjustly discriminatory" methods in the sale and distribution of its products, Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace issued a cease and desist order. Secretary Wallace's action followed a seven-year look-see into such complaints as that Swift made agreements with numerous concerns to buy meat only from it, that Swift deliberately misled customers about competitors' policies, that Swift manipulated prices in search of a meat monopoly...
...small but important detail in his article on the large Exhibition of American Art 1609-1938 which the Museum of Modern Art assembled at the request of the French Government for a summer showing in the Jeu de Paume Museum in Paris. After outlining and analyzing with swift clarity the scope of the exhibition, your reviewer states in the caption under your color reproduction of Henry Varnum Poor's Boy with Bow that the artist is not represented in the Paris show...
...York Republicans from drafting Dewey for Governor this autumn.* His chances of being elected to that office would be comparable to those of famed Charles Seymour Whitman, who in 1915, after convicting Police Lieutenant Charles Becker of murdering Gambler Herman Rosenthal, ascended from D. A. to Governor in one swift vault. Should Tom Dewey perform that feat in this day of dearth in Republican manpower, by 1940 the Party which used to be called Grand as well as Old may be glad to consider him for President...
History 50 is necessary for the German field, being its history in modern times. Members of this special field regret that four distinguished men have left the department in the last four years. Vietor is especially praised in the field, although his German is swift for one not proficient in the tongue. His course 15 on Goethe is one of the best. German 12 is a pure history and literature course, given in English on the Social Background of German Culture...
Carleton B. Swift, Jr. -- Miss Helen-Merriman, Eliot House