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...from London. Boston's crusty, septuagenarian Banker Frederick Henry Prince seldom goes to London. Abroad, he transacts his British business by telephone from Paris. Three weeks ago the largest stockholder of Armour & Co. jiggled the telephone in his Paris home, called for the London office of Robert Hervey Cabell, European manager of that famed old packing company. Both had just received news of the death of Armour's President Thomas George Lee in Chicago (TIME...
Died. Thomas George Lee, 56. president of Armour & Co. since 1931; of intestinal ailments following an appendectomy; in Chicago. A stenographer in 1895, he worked for Armour in Manhattan and Philadelphia, rose steadily, became known as one of the packing industry's ablest authorities. Succeeding Frank Edson White in 1931, he reduced Armour's operating costs by $45,000,000 (35%), wiped out $6,500,000 in annual carrying charges...
...Show. One hundred and eight young women, wives and daughters of Chicago's socially great, acted as models. The audience clapped appreciatively as Miss Josephine Templeton, in tweed, drove a golf ball into the gallery. Applause thundered forth as Mrs. Solomon B. Smith appeared in Mrs. J. Ogden Armour's own wedding gown...
Last week the following newsworthy corporations made the following news: Wages of Meat. The Big Four of the meat-packing industry are Armour, Swift, Wilson and Cudahy-foundations of fabulous Chicago fortunes all. They provide work for some 150,000 people. In the eyes of the Department of Justice, a good many U. S. citizens and all farmers, the leading packers are always suspect. Yet they handle hundreds of millions of pounds of a highly perishable commodity with model efficiency, no waste and a profit, if they are lucky, of a penny or two per dollar of sales...
...when she started school-teaching. Her radio début was over Memphis Station WMC. For two years she sang free in Chicago. Then Columbia Broadcasting System gave her a contract which led to a better one with National Broadcasting Co. and a place with Phil Baker on the Armour hour. Last week's award resulted from a nation-wide balloting in which she won 23,432 votes out of 290,000. Besides her crown she received a one-and-one-half foot silver loving...