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Aside from that there isn't much in his history. He was born at Louisville in 1868, attended Yale, and worked for Armour, the packer. He wrote Letters of a Self-Made Merchant to His Son, a volume translated into many tongues. He became editor of the Saturday Evening Post...
Married. William Rose Benet, poet, one of the editors of The Literary Review (New York) to Mrs. Elinor Hoyt Hichborn Wylie, poet, author of Black Armour. Daughter of the late Henry M. Hoyt, Solicitor General under President Taft, she married in 1906 Philip S. Hichborn, lawyer and writer. After his death she married, in 1916,. Horace Wylie, whom she divorced last Spring, charging nonsupport...
Farmers by subscription would purchase an interest in the Armour Grain Company (one of the large grain marketing concerns of the country). The remaining ownership of the company would be acquired later by subscription or by application of the profits to paying off the present owners. Meanwhile the company, controlled by a joint board of directors, would act as a cooperative marketing agency for the farmers. Mr. George Marcy, President of the Company and expert in grain marketing, would continue to direct the Company's operations for five years...
...Baruch hastened to add that the proposal had not gone beyond the stage of discussion and that he had merely discussed its general feasibility with J. Ogden Armour and Mr. Marcy. Mr. Armour was at first opposed to the plan, but later changed his mind when Mr. Baruch pointed out that if the farmers should take over the Armour Grain Co. it would be a monument to Mr. Armour and his father...
Opposition to Mr. Baruch's plan sprang up at once, however. J. M. Mehl, who is secretary of the U. S. Grain Growers, Inc., declared there was no possibility of their buying the Armour Grain Co. for two good reasons. First, the farmers lack the money, and, second, the farmers are determined to set up their own grower-owned and controlled agencies. The American Farm Bureau Federation issued a similar statement. Mr. Baruch declined further comment...