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...Geoffrey?" Fair visitors found all last year's good non-commercial exhibits repeated, some new ones added. Among the new commercials were John R. Thompson Co. (restaurants), with a big pier into the Lagoon on which there was free dancing; Standard Oil, with a big free animal show; Swift & Co., which had hired the Chicago Symphony to play every day for ten weeks. One of the difficulties about Fair-going last year was that a visitor had to do his long-distance tramping with a bottle in his pocket if he expected any refreshment stronger than beer. There...
...Elijah Swift, Jr., 2G, of Burlington, Vt., to be Assistant in Chemistry...
Flames leaped from pen to pen, scorched cattle, sheep and hogs, threatened the huge packing plants of Swift & Co. and Armour & Co., sprang at the big Livestock Exchange. Up went the Dexter Pavilion, scene of many a great livestock exposition. Up went the old Stockyards Inn, where generations of packing tycoons had dined and done their deals. Up went the Saddle and Sirloin Club, the Department of Agriculture Building, two banks and a radio station. Up went an elevated station. Aviators over South Bend, Ind. 95 mi. away, could see the tall pillar of smoke...
...Elijah Swift, Jr. 2G has taken all the prizes in the exhibit of pictures of Harvard scenes which is being held this week by the Harvard Photographic Society. After the photographs with names concealed, were judged by Arthur Hammond and Ralph Schein, well-known professional photographers it was discovered that Swift's photographs had won first, second, and third prizes, with two photographs of Adams House, and one of Lowell House Tower...
...Roosevelt program leads us to recovery or chaos, to widespread prosperity or national ruin, let no one say that Roosevelt lacked the courage of his convictions. . . ." The Author- James Paul Warburg, 37, is vice chairman of the Bank of the Manhattan Co., co-author with his wife Katherine ("Kay") Swift of "Can't We Be Friends?" and "Up Among the Chimney Pots." Born in Germany and educated at Harvard he did much of the early spadework for the London Conference. Since his exit from the national stage, he has been a prime leader in the fight against inflation...