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Just before the 1929 stockmarket crash the Vans bought from the Armour and Swift packing interests certain terminal and belt line railroad properties in North Kansas City and St. Joseph, Mo. The price was about $19,000,000. In the next few months the Vans bought control of Missouri Pacific...
...foremost of the troubles besetting the "Monthly" is what appears to be a confusion of motives in the minds of its sponsors. The aim of publishing a current review of topics interesting to Harvard men deserves a spirited rendition of "Wintergreen". It touches the weakest spot in the armour of "Lampoon" and "Advocate" partisans. The "funnyman" makes no more mature interpretation than youthful jollity and a liberal allowance of beer can produce, while the muses of the "Advocate" often walk too high on literary Helicon for the vulgar population to follow them. Yet if the intended sacrifice of intellectuality...
Attached to the neck of a lamb received at Armour & Co.'s packing plant at Omaha last week was a note: "This is Billy; take good care of him." On the back of the note was a picture of Billy and his one-time owner, Marian Leaders, 4, of Mineola, Iowa, who had raised him on a bottle. An Armour employe promised that Billy would "never know a moment of pain." In the slaughterhouse, Billy, like hundreds of others of his kind, was strung up by his heels on a moving chain. A muscular butcher seized his head, twisted...
Walter Hagen, five times winner, failed to qualify. Tony Manero, U. S. Open champion, played 123 holes three under par and groaned about his putting. One-time Champions Tommy Armour, Paul Runyan and Gene Sarazen were all put out the same morning and the defending champion, Johnny Revolta, was beaten in the afternoon. Jimmy Thomson, famed as the husband of onetime Cinemactress Viola Dana and the longest driver in golf, wore the same green socks every day, washing them himself at night. His conviction that they brought him luck was not contradicted by victories over Henry Picard, Harold McSpaden, Craig...
...Canadian, seven U. S. stockyards. In 1920, to avoid Government prosecution under anti-trust laws, Swift and the other big packers signed "consent decrees" pledging themselves to get rid of stockyard holdings. Wilson and Cudahy divorced themselves from their relatively small stockyard interests within a few years, Armour took until 1928. Swift, by far the largest owner of stockyards, litigated, delayed, took the last four years to find a purchaser, agree to details...