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...amateur golfer in the world. Built like a halfback. 5 ft., 11 in. and 175 lb., Little is famed for his prodigiously long drives. This winter, in his last year at Stanford, he left at the end of the second term, took a few lessons from one-eyed Tommy Armour, turned in the lowest amateur score in the Augusta Masters' Tournament and asked his father for permission to go to England. Said Colonel Little: "You can go-if you will...
...Minister to Canada the President appointed Career Diplomat Norman Armour, succeeding the late Warren Delano Robbins. Minister to Haiti since 1932, Diplomat Armour has served the U. S. for 23 years at Vienna, Paris, Tokyo, Brussels, Montevideo, The Hague, Washington and Petrograd, where in 1919 he married Princess Mvra Koudacheff...
...over the land last week thousands of adopted children were growing up to be strong, healthy boys & girls. In Chicago Charles Gates Dawes could boast of a grown adopted son, a grown adopted daughter. In Santa Barbara, Calif., the John J. Mitchells (Lolita Armour) could likewise boast of two adopted children. Down the Coast in Hollywood, many a cinemadopted youngster rested securely in his crib, or romped beside a private pool. There the visitor could read about Wallace Beery's 4-year-old Carol Ann, Gloria Swanson's Joseph, Harold Lloyd's Peggy, Constance Bennett...
Exhibitors last week ranged from big companies like Cannon Mills (towels), Owens-Illinois (glassware) and New Haven Clock to little fellows like Protection Products, Toy Tinkers, O-Pan-Top Manufacturing and Thunderbird Aircraft. Buyers were Armour, Swift, Colgate-Palmolive-Peet, Procter & Gamble, Wrigley, General Foods, etc., etc. Biggest dispenser of premiums, with an annual appropriation of some $2,000,000. is supposed to be Quaker Oats Co. For four Quaker Oats box tops or one top and a dime, the company has lately distributed no less than 350,000 model airplanes made by Scrambled Eggs, Inc. A newcomer...
...loading himself up with grain elevators, he opened a string of 15 branch offices. Lately he was reported slapping quantities of cash into Polish rye, Argentine corn and oats. Sincerely disliked by many a grain broker for his personality and methods, Manny Rosenbaum was a central figure in the Armour grain scandal of 1925. and the failure of Dean, Onativia & Co., a brokerage house which he helped organize. Last week most of Manny Rosenbaum's negotiations with the Board of Trade and the court were conducted not by Manny Rosenbaum but by a vigorous, grey-thatched Irishman named Louis...