Word: swiftly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Brown University (Providence, R. I.) U. S. Supreme Court Justice Benjamin Nathan Cardozo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LL.D. President Franklin Winslow Johnson of Colby College (Waterville, Me.). . . LL.D. Harold Higgins Swift, Chicago packer. LL.D. Astronomer Harlow Shapley . . . . . . . . . . . Sc.D. Actress Eva Le Gallienne . . . . . . . . . . . . .Litt.D. Charles Albert Selden, London correspondent of the New York Times . . . . . M.A. Colby College (Waterville, Me.) Bainbridge Colby. Woodrow Wilson's Secretary of State. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LL.D...
...York's Federal Reserve Bank, owlish U. S. Treasury Adviser Dr. Oliver Mitchell Wentworth Sprague (recently Adviser to the Bank of England) and a brisk young Manhattan banker, James Paul Warburg. Letting Secretary Hull stew in his low tariff juice, these U. S. fiscal experts made swift contact with their peers at the British Treasury and in the Bank of England, started conversations to determine at what relative point pound, dollar and franc can and should be stabilized...
...Some $25,000 was raised. The Temple idea was abandoned and the $25,000 set aside for concerts to be given in the Auditorium on Wabash Ave. Last week the Chicago Friends manfully started their World's Fair concert season. Soprano Claire Dux, wife of Packer Charles Henry Swift, soloed without pay the opening night, brought the house cheering to its feet. Pianist Rudolph Ganz played next night. Ruth Page and a special corps de ballet danced to Ravel's Bolero night after that. Scheduled for this week is an all-Gershwin concert at which Gershwin will play...
...Saturday. "It will be said in years to come that an administration came into office at the precise moment when a crisis almost unparalleled in modern history had reached its peak. It will be pointed out that whenever such a crisis has occurred elsewhere in the world, its swift sequel has been a revolution...
...name for himself as a critical visitor, not only of the U. S. but of England, Canada, Australia, New Zealand. French to the core (which thinks itself sounder than that of any other nation) he looks about him in his travels with a penetratingly shrewd eye. On a swift tour of South America two years ago he wrote a series of diary letters to friends in France, telling what he thought about what he saw. Collected, they make a short book (192 pp.) but a brightly written, informative one. In the Canal Zone, Traveler Siegfried was much impressed...