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Partners at Croquet. Early in the New Deal, Harriman's political tutelage was taken over by a real genius, the gaunt son of an Iowa harnessmaker, Harry Hopkins. Hopkins and Harriman used to play croquet (Harriman had dismounted from polo by that time) at Herbert Bayard Swope's estate on Long Island. It was the beginning of a great friendship. Wrote crotchety old Harold Ickes: "Mr. Harriman was one of the famous group of patron-protégés of the late Harry Hopkins. Probably he was the chief of these. He was always willing to scratch...
Pilot Service. In Albuquerque, Juvenile Judge Edwin L. Swope acquitted a 12-year-old of charges of violating the teen-age curfew after he learned that the boy had gone out late to bring his mother home from...
...Francisco, Warden Edwin Swope brought up a housing problem of another sort. The average cost of rooming & boarding an inmate of Alcatraz, he announced, is now $8 a day-more than twice the rate of other federal prisons, and about the same as a single room in a good San Francisco hotel...
...Batchelder, the good came quickly. He boosted enrollments from 67 to 320, built a $1,500,000 campus, saw his endowment grow to over $3,000,000, Over the years, Loomis began to get a goodly share of scions-the sons of John D. Rockefeller Jr., Lee Higginson, Gerard Swope and Arthur Hays Sulzberger...
...Faced with a federal court ruling that Negroes must be admitted to the Kansas City (Mo.) Swope Park swimming pool, the city's park board voted unanimously not to open the pool...