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Last week the following were news:

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 a cattle-buyer, was made vice president of Swift & Co. in 1909, vice chairman in 1931. He is married to Claire Dux, soprano. Last week the price of hogs was still firm after its recent rise (TIME, July 11), cattle prices were beginning to follow upward.

Joseph Wright Harriman, founder-president of Manhattan's Harriman National Bank & Trust Co., nephew of the late Railroader Edward Henry Harriman, retired to the board chairmanship in favor of Henry Elliott Cooper, formerly one of Chase National Bank's 74 vice presidents and a onetime member of John Davison Rockefeller's personal staff. Harriman National was founded as Night & Day Bank (open continuously), changed its name in 1911, still remains open for business from 8 a. m. to 8 p. m.

Julius Howland Barnes, good friend of President Hoover, onetime chairman of U. S. Chamber of Commerce, board chairman of Insuranshares Corp., was elected chairman of Missouri State Life Insurance Co. (assets: $154,900,000), succeeding Theobald Felss of Cincinnati, who voluntarily retired.

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