Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clock: Ivor Catlin, Hubert P. Earle, Robert A. Fearey, Patrick Henry, Christian A. Herter, Jr., Stacey B. Hulse, Jr., and Edward C. P. Thomas. From 10:30 till 12 o'clock; George P. Denny, Jr., John C. Glidden, John Grant, Daniel Ladd, Joseph P. Lyford, Carlton B. Swift, Jr., and Joseph W. Gardella...
...last week there had been three presidents of Swift & Co., all Swifts. Up to 1928 not even a vice president had come from outside the family. But by that time the country's biggest packer had so many top offices that there were not enough Swifts to go round, and three non-Swift vice presidents were elected. Last week Vice President John Holmes, 46, was upped to the presidency, succeeding Gustavus F. Swift, who moved into one of two new vice-chairmanships...
John Holmes would insist that he is an outsider only genealogically, for he has worked for Swift & Co. since he was 15. And the Swifts would insist that Swift & Co. is not being run by an outsider by a long shot. Charles H. Swift stays as chair-man of the board. Gustavus F. Swift and Harold H. Swift, as vice chairmen, intend to let Mr. Holmes take care of the routine matters involved in managing a business which sells nearly a billion dollars worth of meat and provisions annually and is expected to make as much money this year...
...these days when screen action is swift and vivid and of absorbing interest, the growing luridness of "Ebb Tide" is not a pleasant change in cinematic diet but in spite of its spasmodic gait it does create tension in its closing minutes. Nevertheless one still goes home distracted by unanswered situations and incidental superfluities in the script. In short, "Ebb Tide" is not recommended...
...team will have its first practice session at Lake Placid from December 26 to January 1 and will enter the Lake Placid meet scheduled for December 30. After this date meets follow one another in swift succession. The annual Harvard Race will be held on the Sherburne Trail, Pinkham Notch, on January 9 and will be an open race for all undergraduate members of the University...