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...London's vital outpost, the Ambassadorship to the Court of St. James's, he prepared to send no blundering politico but one of the ablest career diplomats in the Foreign Service, shrewd, handsome Norman Armour, now Ambassador to Argentina. Mr. Armour's record was a quick index to his ability: posts at Paris (twice). Petrograd, Brussels, The Hague, Montevideo, Rome. Tokyo, Port-au-Prince, Ottawa, Santiago. Buenos Aires, Washington...
...talking, the Foreign Ministers of Argentina and Uruguay announced their deal last week, no mention was made of the U. S. Neighboring countries (presumably Brazil, Paraguay, probably Bolivia and Chile) will be invited to participate in the plans. The U. S. stayed out of the picture, but Ambassador Norman Armour and Foreign Minister Roca have recently had long heart-to-heart talks. Last week the U. S. lent Argentina $60,000,000. Before the bases are built, the U. S. will most probably lend technical assistance-as well as money...
...Canadian $5 gold piece on his watch chain. He felt the tailhead of Canadian-bred Shorthorn and U. S.-bred Hereford, poked ribs, chest, shoulders like a house guest poking the guest bed mattress. He tipped his hat forward, tipped it back. He held a whispered consultation with Armour & Co.'s portly old Colonel Edward Norris Wentworth, perennial ringmaster of livestock shows, who apparently gave him no help...
Since the war in Europe broke out in the fall of 1939 the British-Argentine economic relationship has been strained. The British buy a considerable amount of their beef from the Argentine packing houses which bear the familiar names of Swift, Armour, and Wilson. The Argentine has bought in the past finished heavy goods from the British with their English pounds. Since the war, however, these pounds have been blocked in London by the British control of foreign exchange; they are not now transferable into American dollars as they were in the past. This situation has put the Argentines...
...windbag, the little Roman promptly named his challengers: Old-timers Tom my Armour, Harry Cooper, Billie Burke, Craig Wood, Jimmy Thomson, Al Watrous, Lawson Little and Newcomers Jim my Demaret, Ben Hogan, Ed Oliver...