Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pleased last week with the world, the flesh and the U. S. Supreme Court were Gustavus F. Swift, Robert H. Cabell, Edward Aloysius Cudahy, Edward Foss Wilson, all U. S. packers of meat. In November 1933, the U. S. Government begar collecting a pork-processing tax. Set at $2.25 per cwt. of pig slaughtered, the tax yielded $255,000,000 by June 1935. Then packers went to court, got injunctions against further tax collections until AAA's constitutionality could be determined. The special tax funds, in escrow, awaited the Supreme Court's decision. Last fortnight the AAA became...
...pigs went to market, compared to 44,398,000 in 1934. Total meat supply was off about 18%. The result was marked advance in meat prices. Between October 1934 and October 1935 beef went up (wholesale) 40%, lamb 30%, cured pork 40% and fresh pork 65%. Yet, except for Swift, packers had trouble in much improving 1934 profits, for the price of livestock increased even more than the price of meat. During the year ending October 1935, the price of cattle went up 55%, of lambs 40% and of hogs...
...Manhattan's Capitol Theatre. Fresh from Hungary, where his dentist-father had pushed him as a prodigy, he had been lured to the U. S. by a promise of a concert tour, only to have his manager fail him. Other men's misfortunes led to his swift rise as a conductor. The leader at the Capitol was taken suddenly ill one day; within a few hours the young violinist stepped into his place. Four years ago Arturo Toscanini was unable to keep an engagement in Philadelphia; young Eugene Ormandy had another unexpected chance. He acquitted himself so creditably...
...Richmond last week, while two polio sergeants saw to it that nothing more potent than personalities were exchanged, the anti-Kemp factor won a completely decisive victory. Headed by Alphonso Lyn Ivey, ousted from the presidency in October, they got rid of Kemp-President F. Swift Gibson, Kemp-Vice President Gustavus Ober Jr., and eight Kemp directors, including Boss Kemp himself. Then Mr. Ivey went back into the presidency, along with the men who had served under him as vice president and as treasurer, precisely restoring the status quo ante...
...Campus" made an important contribution to our understanding of the present maelstrom of confused tendencies of political thought and action as they whirl about the ivyed walls. Documented with care and thoroughness, organized with skill and clarity the work is also very readable. Mr. Weschler has a clear swift moving style which makes the going smooth and pleasant. However, the worth of the book does not depend on its literary merits. As an historical analysis of the condition of the American campus since 1917 and as a brief, however sublimated, for the political organization of college youth in the active...