Word: armours
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Charles W. Armour, 66, Vice President of Armour & Co. (meat packers); of pneumonia; in Kansas City...
...caveat emptor (let the buyer beware) were still the U. S. rule for trading in wheat, corn, rye, barley oats and like grains, then Armour Grain Co., or anyone, might play David Harum* to the detriment of farmers, millers or brokers. But the U. S. Department of Agriculture has long sought to keep grain transactions honest; and so Secretary William M. Jardine was "tremendously interested" last week to learn that Banker Edward Eagle Brown of Chicago, as arbitrator, had ordered the Armour Grain Co. to pay $3,000,000 to creditors of the now dissolved Farmers' Cooperative Grain Marketing...
...money was a penalty for dishonesty and cheating by Armour Grain Co. employes. When their stores of grain were being sampled and priced for sale to the Farmers' company, they sneaked into their warehouses, in dead night, and altered samples of poor, bin-burnt grain to make it seem like good grain. And they falsified their books to claim more grain sold than actually existed. This was reprehensible, decided Arbitrator Brown. The buyers had no warning to beware; should not have needed such warning. J. Ogden Armour and his nephews Philip D. Armour and Lester Armour will have...
Referring to the case, Crown Attorney (Prosecutor) Eric Armour said sternly: "One may attack the Christian religion if one does so in decent reasonable language; but publications which in an indecent spirit asperse Christianity or the Scriptures, and do so in a language calculated and tended to shock the feelings and outrage the belief of mankind, are held to be liable to prosecution...
Meat Pact. The so-called "Argentine meat war" between the principal importing firms in England ended last week with a gentleman's agreement between Swift & Co., Armour & Co.; and the English firm of Vestey Brothers. To each concern was apportioned an agreed percentage of the business to be done. At present the only firms of consequence who are outside this agreement are the Smithfield and Argentine Meat Co. and its satellites. Britons, who dislike Argentine meat anyway, were not cheered by the prospect of having to pay more for it now that the price war is over...