Word: swenson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...side was the family banking house into which he had been born 25 years before, the firm of John R. Williams of Richmond, Va. On the other was the established, close-mouthed management of the $19,303,681 Freeport Texas sulphur syndicate headed by old E. P. Swenson, onetime board chairman of Manhattan's powerful National City Bank...
...spent two years collecting proxies, saw his ammunition dump scattered to the four winds of Depression in the frenzied selling of the fall of 1929. But carrying the banner for his family house he started over again, by April 1930 had gathered enough proxy shot & shell to dislodge the Swenson management...
Sullivan, who was nosed out by Republican Chester R. Swenson for assemblyman from the second district in Middlesex by a scant 200 votes had demanded a recount. "It probably won't change things," he said, "but I'll find out where all the dirt was thrown, where I got knifed...
Abraham A. Watson Scholarships: Melvin M. Graves, 2M, of Lakewood, O., Western Reserve Univ. Orvar Swenson, 2M, of Independence, Mo., A.B. Wm. Jewell Coll. 1933. Frank Payne, Jr., 2M, of Danville, III., A.B. Univ...
...adult illiterates, etc. may we suggest that those who cannot get the points in TIME subscribe to The American World for the next school year. . . . One of the first words learned is the word "if," which if TIME-readers had understood, would have made the whole article clear. . . . ELAINE SWENSON...