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...Dall's editorial debut, Mrs. Roosevelt has had both editorial and writing experience. For four years she edited the Women's Democratic News. She has written articles on child welfare for most women's magazines. (She has five children, long experience as a teacher.) Her literary style is swift, simple, containing few commas. Sample: "I have no patience with people who try to give children books which they consider suitable to the youthful mind. There was a time in my youth when books like the Elsie books and the Rollo books were part of all our libraries...
...where Peter Stuyvesant lies buried. Medicine was represented by mysterious, some say hypnotic Dr. Edward Spencer Cowles, 52, son-in-law of William Gibbs McAdoo, fashionable neurologist, psychiatrist, director of the Park Avenue Hospital where died Actress Jeanne Eagels of an overdose of heroin and rich young William E. Swift of Chicago by suicide (TIME, June 9, Sept. 1, 1930). The Episcopal Church was represented by the conservative vestry of St. Mark's, and somewhere in the background by New York's Bishop William Thomas Manning. Midway between was Dr. William Norman Guthrie, tall, handsome, voluble rector...
Charles Henry Sivift, 59, was elected president of Compania Swift Internacional at a directors' meeting in Buenos Aires, succeeding his brother, the late Edward Foster Swift, whom he also succeeded as chairman of Swift & Co, Swift Internacional raises livestock in South America. New Zealand, Australia. It sells mostly in Europe; by a trade agreement formed in 1927 Swift Internacional, Armour, and English-owned Union Cold Storage share 69% of the South American-European beef trade. Son of Founder Gustavus Franklin Swift, President Swift went to no college, began work in the Stock Yards at an early age. He became...
Soon Italy's famed Artiglio II, champion treasure-hunting ship (TIME, July 4, et ante), was called into action. Her divers reported that the Promethee lies on an even keel in 230 ft. of water where the current is exceedingly swift. Twice the divers' telephone connection with the Artiglio was ripped apart by the rushing waters. They expressed a professional opinion that it will be impossible to raise the Promethée, said that they found her hatches open, conjectured that an explosion may have ripped open the Promethée's stern, thus causing...
...arrived by carload lots. Penned up in long alleys they rooted, grunted and jostled one another with muddy, clammy snouts. In between them marched the buyers for the great meat companies, poking their porky flanks and paunches with sticks and crying the cry of hogs, "Tsaa, tsaa, tsaa." With swift gestures and few words the buyers made their purchases. Four times a day the results were broadcast and in the great hog States there was gladness on the farms. For last week the price of hogs was still rising. Speculators who had "tried a turn in piggies" chuckled. Farmers took...