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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...
...three months a year in Manhattan. The man who upped Jock Whitney from a director to a full-fledged major corporation executive was President Langbourne Meade Williams Jr., son of a Richmond, Va. banker who helped found Freeport in 1913. Working control of Freeport had passed to Eric P. Swenson, onetime chairman of National City Bank, by the time young, energetic Langbourne Williams graduated from the Harvard Business School. But by 1930, after his Lee, Higginson apprenticeship, Mr. Williams was ready to oust the old management which had, among other things, let Freeport's reserves approach the point...
...Hopkins detailed him to make poems that would teach English to New York City's immigrants and illiterates. Some of them appear in The American News, a paper published by the Language Research Institute and written entirely in a vocabulary of 900 easy words chosen by Director Elaine Swenson. Some of poet Kugelmass' work in the 900-word vocabulary...