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...visiting sovereign. John Buchan, first Baron Tweedsmuir, Governor General of Canada and the person of His Majesty the King in the Dominion, met the Presidential special, accompanied by Canadian Premier William Lyon Mackenzie King, Lieut. Governor Esioff Léon Patenaude of Quebec and U. S. Minister Norman Armour. With an escort of Royal Canadian Dragoons trotting beside him, President Roosevelt was driven up through the narrow streets of French Quebec to the heights of Dufferin Terrace...
Before he died insolvent in London in 1927, Jonathan Ogden Armour sold to his wife for $1,500,000 a few stock certificates in an unknown company called Universal Oil Products. The Chicago meat packer had backed the little company because it controlled an oil-cracking process developed by that appropriately-named inventor, Carbon Petroleum Dubbs. After her husband's death Lolita Sheldon Armour offered her 400 shares of Universal Oil to the Armour creditors, who scorned them. Four years later the Widow Armour, Carbon Petroleum Dubbs and a handful of other stockholders sold out to a group...
...Ghezzi, needing a final 71, had taken 81. If he had further doubts last week as he waited for Manero to finish, Cooper could have thankfully reflected that lightning rarely strikes twice in the same place. In the 1927 Open, he posted what looked like a winning 301. Tommy Armour tied it, beat him in the playoff...
...Chicago's Passavant Memorial Hospital last week lay Philip Danforth Armour IV, great-grandson of the packing house founder, with a light attack of infantile paralysis. A few miles away lay lightly stricken his distant cousin, Charles Armour, in his own Lake Forest home. Both contracted the disease presumably at St. Mark's, whence their parents snatched them last month at first word of epidemic. To a hospital room next to their son went Philip Danforth Armour III and his wife Gwendolin. Said the mother: "It is worth the risk to stay near him." Fourteen years ago Philip...
...return just as the Government has been sued for collecting excess income taxes and excess War-profit taxes. Because the meat-packing business is so large and so concentrated, the four big packers made large recoveries on the AAA decision. Their refunds were reliably estimated at: Armour...