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...years ago these orders for social planning given at the White House would have produced a storm of criticism. Last week they produced nothing of the kind. Not only did General Electric's Gerard Swope speak up in approval but that stanch mouthpiece of conservative Republicanism, Ogden Mills, came out roundly next day in favor of unemployment reserves. In principle nearly all the great industrialists of the U. S. today favor the idea. Some have their fingers crossed about the form such plans may take, but all know how badly industry needs workers' purchasing power in times...
Twenty-five years ago the name of Dr. Bennett Clark Hyde was in the headlines of every U. S. newspaper as a cold-blooded murderer. A young practitioner, he had married the niece of rich old Thomas H. Swope of Kansas City, who lived in a large country place near Independence. In October 1909 Dr. Hyde was called to Independence to care for another of his wife's uncles, old James Moss Hunton who was down with apoplexy. Dr. Hyde took two quarts of blood out of Uncle Moss and the patient promptly died. Two days later Uncle...
...these three deaths Dr. Hyde was put on trial in Kansas City. An autopsy showed that the capsule given Uncle Tom contained strychnine. The State charged that Dr. Hyde had murdered to reduce the size of the Swope family, increase his wife's share in the $3,500,000 Swope estate. (She got $118,000.) Dr. Hyde's defense was that all three had died in the course of ethical medical practice...
Married. Jane Marion Swope, 21, daughter of Herbert Bayard Swope, one-time executive editor of the defunct New York World; and Robert Lee Brandt, 22, cf Manhattan, employe of the NRA admnistrative staff; in Ossining...
...perched on stools in a huge white betting shed at the far end of the grandstand. They were bookmakers, operating openly for the first time since 1907. That year Lillian Russell and "Diamond Jim" Brady went to the track every day. That year, also, Herbert Bayard Swope, now chairman of the New York State Racing Commission, was best man at Arnold Rothstein's wedding. To Saratoga last week went old John G. Cavanagh, called back to the betting ring last spring to head New York State bookmakers, settle their disputes as he had done 27 years...