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...tension by declaring with a smile, "Let us not blame anybody. Let us say that circumstances beyond our control wrecked things." Mr. Chamberlain then warned that Great Britain, until last year a so-called "free trade" country, is still in the stage of "constructing tariff walls," ready to take swift reprisal against states which raise theirs higher against British goods...
...they were startled by an echo from the past-the sound of a bear trapped five years ago and still clawing at the trap. In Chicago's U. S. District Court, President Edward Wellington Backus of Backus-Brooks Co. (lumber) of Minneapolis filed suit against President Gustavus Franklin Swift of Swift & Co.. Allen F. Moore (onetime Republican Congressman from Illinois), Herbert J. Blum (oldtime grain operator). His charge: that in 1928 he sold short 950,000 bushels of July corn, that they and others long 9,000,000 bushels of corn engineered a "corner" in violation...
...Dallas last March while on his way West to manage a Los Angeles-Agua Caliente air line controlled by Mrs. Isabella Greenway, long-time friend of the Roosevelt family. She is a bobbed-haired, brunette Junior Leaguer of 23, whose late father was head of the Swift packing plant at Fort Worth. She had been invited to a dinner party given for Elliott. He drove her back to Fort Worth, went to see her once before proceeding to Nevada to establish residence for his divorce...
Left. By Edward Foster Swift, meat packing tycoon who was instantly killed last year in a fall from a window of his Chicago apartment (TIME, June 6, 1932 ): $10,000,000; to his wife, to his three children and to charity, one-third each. Recent stock rises have more than doubled the value of his estate...
...ardour and a fine healthy contempt for geographical distribution blanks, salmon-colored cards which the officials call pink, and courses which may or may not give him a half credit for an A.B. The Vagabond is a large man and impatient of all these peccadilloes. His spirit rides a swift charger and he would be off somewhere in the country, dawdling in some old pasture, climbing a hill, or floating down some tree-lined river in a canoe. Learning is sensitive and must be wood in quiet places, not commardeered by signing one's name six times. In the country...