Word: armour
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Come Again, Sweet Love," plaintively sang a number of young men in Chicago. They finished their piping; another group of male singers took their place, repeated the old ballad by John Dowland, arranged for chorus singing. Another and another group repeated the song; they were the glee-clubs of Armour, Beloit, Chicago, Grinnell, Illinois, Iowa, Knox, Lake Forest, Michigan, Millikin, Northwestern, Purdue, Wabash and Wisconsin colleges and universities. After every rendering of the ballad, judges made notes, announced at length that of all seats of learning in the mid-U. S., Wisconsin is sweetest of throat; Michigan is second, they...
...Armour & Co. is about to join the long list of U. S. "family" corporations which have in the end sold out to the investing public...
...common stock capitalization of the company amounts to about $100,000,000 and consists of 2,000,000 Class A and 2,000,000 Class B shares. Both classes have a par value of $25 per share. Almost all this stock is at present owned by J. Ogden Armour and his family. Mr. Armour's own interest consists of between 600,000 and 700,000 shares of each issue. Since 1922, when serious readjustments were made in the company's affairs, he has planned to sell out a substantial part of his holdings and now a banking syndicate...
...thirty. She should have lived in the Renaissance. She has an air of otherworld remoteness and of the color of romance as well. Her writing was started only a few years ago; but the finely spun, exquisitely phrased verses, now collected in Nets to Catch the Wind and Black Armour were immediately recognized as authentic contributions to the lists of American poets. She then turned to prose and her delicately wrought, colorful, ironical Jennifer Lorn is a book which is almost too good to be true. In style and in form she imitated in it the mannered seventeenth century...
...Converse was a man of sterling character and force," declared Bishop Lawrence in his letter telling of the gift, "He had many interests, and was well known as a collector of Chinese porcelain, paintings and armour. He was also the owner of one of the largest and most successful fruit farms in the East. He typified the best of professional business men, and his interest in educational effort was always intense. Among other things he endowed a professorship of banking in the School of Business Administration at the University...