Word: armour
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...over the land last week thousands of adopted children were growing up to be strong, healthy boys & girls. In Chicago Charles Gates Dawes could boast of a grown adopted son, a grown adopted daughter. In Santa Barbara, Calif., the John J. Mitchells (Lolita Armour) could likewise boast of two adopted children. Down the Coast in Hollywood, many a cinemadopted youngster rested securely in his crib, or romped beside a private pool. There the visitor could read about Wallace Beery's 4-year-old Carol Ann, Gloria Swanson's Joseph, Harold Lloyd's Peggy, Constance Bennett...
...loading himself up with grain elevators, he opened a string of 15 branch offices. Lately he was reported slapping quantities of cash into Polish rye, Argentine corn and oats. Sincerely disliked by many a grain broker for his personality and methods, Manny Rosenbaum was a central figure in the Armour grain scandal of 1925. and the failure of Dean, Onativia & Co., a brokerage house which he helped organize. Last week most of Manny Rosenbaum's negotiations with the Board of Trade and the court were conducted not by Manny Rosenbaum but by a vigorous, grey-thatched Irishman named Louis...
...refunding is shortly expected. Southern California Edison is about to float $73,000,000 of 4% bonds-biggest issue ever registered. Union Oil has filed a $13,500,000 offering. And last week big corporations like American Rolling Mills, California Packing, Virginia Electric & Power, Pennsylvania R. R., Commonwealth Edison, Armour & Co. and Texas Corp. were all reported to be considering financing ranging in amounts...
Contempt. With little to dramatize in the case, Lawyer Hogan in 1930 failed to persuade a District of Columbia court that the Government should allow Meatpackers Armour and Swift to sell other things besides meat. And the very guile with which he strove last year to keep onetime Assistant Secretary of Commerce William P. MacCracken out of jail for contempt of the Senate contributed largely to the fact that MacCracken last week went to jail* (see p. 14). Lawyer Hogan has probably the largest non-lobbying law firm in Washington to maintain. Though he has represented Mr. Mellon on previous...
...Miami the guest of honor was Carpenter Thomas Armour, who grappled for Assassin Guiseppe Zangara's revolver in Bay Front Park two years ago. Price of admission to the ball held at Kealakekua, Territory of Hawaii, was $1. A ringside table at the Colony Club celebration in Tampa cost $250. A feature of the holiday at Mt. Carmel, Ill. was a contest to decide who was the town's most unpopular citizen. A triple wedding was solemnized at the Monroe, Wis. affair...