Word: armours
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Zangara's shooting arm was suddenly shoved up in the air by the frail hand of Lillian Johns Cross, wife of a Miami physician. From the row behind, Thomas Armour, a lanky Miami contractor, reached forward, also grabbed that lethal arm. But Zangara's fingers kept working the stiff trigger...
...Latin School has no endowment; its only endowed scholarship is one Headmaster Northrop brought with him in 1926. A fine athletic field was given in 1928 in memory of the late Kersey Coates Reed, but the school would have preferred cash or endowed chairs. Many Chicagoans (like Trustee Lester Armour) have moved to their country homes, put their children in suburban schools. Others have taken their children out of Chicago Latin School, put them in Eastern boarding schools (Headmaster Northrop has a son at Groton, a pretty daughter at Vassar...
...still has the bristle and bustle that he had in 1897 when, aged 29, he read that Mr. Curtis of Maine had acquired the Post, a 16-page sheet of 1,800 circulation. Lorimer, a Boston newshawk, lately stenographer in the office of Chicago Packer Philip Danforth Armour,* telegraphed Mr. Curtis for an appointment, after ten minutes' conversation had a job on the Post...
...From his observation of P. D. Armour's letters to his son, Jonathan Ogden. Lorimer later wrote his famed Letters of a Self-Made Merchant...
...Last year President Frank Edson White of Armour & Co. was killed in a fall from a window of his apartment. Last May Edward Foster Swift, 68, board chairman of Swift & Co., was killed in a fall from a window of his apartment...