Word: armours
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...building was held a corporation's annual meeting for which the build-up had been long & loud. The horrid-sounding charges which Joseph I. Zook, as head of a self-appointed stockholders protective "association," had been hurling at Montgomery Ward's management insured good attendance. Even the Armour brothers, Philip and Lester, dropped in to pick up a few pointers from Ward's quick-witted President-Chairman Sewell Lee Avery...
Laurance Hearne Armour, grandnephew of Philip Danforth Armour who founded Armour & Co., was elected president of Chicago's American National Bank & Trust Co., successor to Straus National Bank which was taken over and renamed last year by a group of Chicago businessmen. President Armour, grandson of Banker Andrew Watson Armour who settled in Kansas City, is a director of Armour...
Born in Liverpool, the Vesteys rank with Swift, Armour and Wilson in the world's meat trade. When British retailers would not buy frozen meat 25 years ago, the Vesteys set up their own shops which now number some 4,000. When they could not get refrigerated space on ships from South America, they bought their own vessels, founded their own Blue Star Line, Ltd. Famed is Lady Vestey, born Evelyn Brodstone of Superior, Neb. Farm-bred, she became stenographer to Baron Vestey, later a $250,000-a-year executive ("highest-salaried woman in the world...
...desperate, the Stewart-Warner management yielded. Last June six new directors were elected, including such potent Chicago names as Eugene Van Rensselaer Thayer, American Telephone & Telegraph director, Lawyer Ralph Shaw, shrewd, hard-bitten member of Winston, Strawn & Shaw, Robert J. Dunham, close associate of the late Jonathan Ogden Armour. But because no one relished the idea of having Inventor Zerk tearing his thick black mane at directors' meetings, a temporary coalition was formed to defeat the Zerk slate with one exception. To soothe Mr. Zerk's temper, they made one of his candidates, Robert James Graham of Belleville...
There are seven Swifts in Swift & Co., four Armours in Armour & Co., two Wilsons in Wilson & Co. Last week Thomas Edward Wilson, 65, and Edward Foss Wilson, 29, both made news when Father Thomas was moved from president to board chairman and Son Edward from vice president to president. Wilson & Co.'s 9,000-odd stockholders had no good ground lo fear nepotism. For Father Thomas the board chairmanship was created, and from that eminence he announced he would continue to run the company. No matter how much Father Thomas might wish to see his red-haired...