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...Front. Perón had won a victory. He quickly won another. The U.S. State Department was trying to form a united hemisphere front against the regime of Peron's stooge, anti-U.S. Vice President Edelmiro Farrell (who had forcibly replaced President Pedro Ramirez). U.S. Ambassador Norman Armour was instructed to "refrain from entering official relations" with Farrell. British Ambassador David Kelly got the same order. Latin nations were supposedly "consulting...
...Department was thoroughly scooped on the Bolivian revolt. No hint or word of the impending uprising had come from the U.S. Ambassador, socialite Pierre de Lagarde Boal (rhymes with goal), an elegant career diplomat whose dispatches have unfailingly reflected the views of Bolivian tin-mine owners. From able Norman Armour, Ambassador to Argentina, there had been hints of forthcoming trouble, but since Norman Armour's business is Argentina, they were no more than that. The State Department had no solid, fresh information on which to base judgments on Bolivian affairs...
Laurance & Lester Armour and Joseph M. Cudahy got gouged by their Chicago corner butchers, according to OPA. Investigators of violated price ceilings reported that the Armours had paid 10? a Ib. too much for hamburger and Cudahy 8? too much for sirloin...
...Chicago's Armour Research Foundation, the Registry was started partly because the Foundation once took a month to locate a substance called "1,1 dichlorol 1 nitro ethane" needed on a rush job.The Registry makes no chemicals itself, merely acts as a clearinghouse. It now lists some 7,000 items that U.S. chemists are willing to share, can lay its hands on a requested chemical three times out of four...
Hull's personal adviser is also his croquet partner, James Clement Dunn. Dapper, slick-haired, 53-year-old "Jimmy" Dunn married into the Armour packing family, gives lavish receptions, likes European nobility, wears the right clothes. In the past he supported the Franco regime, backed Marshal Henri Pétain helped Vichyite Marcel Peyrouton. On his record, he has been anti-Soviet...