Word: armours
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...uniformly come to a bad end and produce more children who are well on their way to an equally bad end. This same doleful tale was told in "He Loved a Woman," which was at the University a few weeks ago. It was a fused picture of the Armour rise and collapse and the Insull flasco. Always there is painted with vivid morbidity the panorama of where wealth collects and men decay...
...retirement in 1933, his salary from the bank was at the rate of $202,500. He was voted a pension of $100,000 a year for life. In addition in recent years he also received salaries from: American Locomotive, $300 a month American Sugar Refining, $300 a month Armour & Co. (now nothing), previously $1,000 a month, still earlier $40,000 a year American Express (formerly) $3,000 a year Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit (formerly) $20,000 a year International Paper, about $2,000 Stone & Webster (formerly) $1,500 Underwood Elliott Fisher, about $2,000 Western Union Telegraph, about...
This measure is purely and simply one designed to fill the dormitories on the right bank of the Charles, and the attempt to clothe it in the gleaming armour of a noble motive is unpleasant. It is, however, typical of the official Harvard hypocritical pose on a number of matters. The same smug assumption of generosity characterizes the University's distribution of scholarships and jobs. The scholarships are the work of philanthropists most of whom have passed to their reward, and are beyond the reach of deserved thanks; student aid in the form of jobs comes mostly from the pockets...
...reported that as members of Armour & Co.'s Finance Committee Mr. McRoberts had received $60,000 a year from 1923 to 1931, Messrs. Wiggin & Reynolds $40,000 each. In 1931 (when Mr. Lee took office) their salaries were cut 10%. Since February 1932 Mr. McRoberts has received $18,000 a year; Mr. Wiggin $12,000. Mr. Reynolds was succeeded by James Reader Leavell, present president of Chicago's Continental Illinois National who serves on the Armour committee without salary. Besides salary Samuel McRoberts was paid $10,000 in 1932 for special services connected with negotiations for the merger...
...reported further 1) that the present management of the company had not participated in any market manipulation of Armour stock; 2) that 16,500 shares of Armour preferred bought and set aside for resale to company officers had been taken back by the company and retired, the officers forfeiting payments made by them; 3) that lesser employes had been allowed to discontinue payments under the stock purchase plan and take stock equivalent to the amount they had paid in; 4) that the company planned to issue no new preferred stock if the old were retired in reorganization...