Word: armours
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. George M. Willetts, 62, retired head of the personnel division of Armour & Co.; by jumping from a window of his eleventh-floor apartment; in Chicago...
...which British & U. S. Open Champion Gene Sarazen failed to qualify three weeks ago. Ponderous Olin Dutra who looks like Jack Dempsey and handles his putter like an elephant with a teaspoon, won the medal with 140. His brother Mortie, Johnny Farrell, Mike Turnesa, Abe Espinosa, Walter Kozak, Tommy Armour and last year's Open champion, Billy Burke, were all over the play-off score?153. The first round was memorable for two tremendous matches which passed the record set when Chick Evans won the 1920 U. S. Amateur in 40 holes...
...George Emmerson Q. (for nothing) Johnson of Chicago, to be a U. S. District Judge (Attorney Johnson jailed Gangster Capone and nine other racketeers); Ernest B. Thomas of Rushville, Ind. to be a member of the Federal Farm Board (Rushville is the hometown of Republican Senate Leader Watson); Norman Armour, now Counsellor of Embassy at Paris, to be Minister to Haiti (a career diplomat, Mr. Armour diplomatically announced: "I'm as pleased to go to Haiti as I am sorry to leave Paris"). ¶ For his 58th birthday, President Hoover received: 1) a cake baked aboard...
...Twelfth known in the North for 20 years." The shooting season's inauspicious opening was not due to bad weather alone. U. S. lessors of Scottish estates were conspicuously few. John Pierpont Morgan was there, as were Tycoons Solomon Guggenheim, John W. Converse and Andrew Watson Armour. But many a moor was barren of beaters. Although bracken has lately been encroaching on the heather it was well filled with healthy birds, and those who had leases planned a season of hard shooting to reduce the big coveys to a few birds so that those that remained would mate...
...directors' meeting in Buenos Aires, succeeding his brother, the late Edward Foster Swift, whom he also succeeded as chairman of Swift & Co, Swift Internacional raises livestock in South America. New Zealand, Australia. It sells mostly in Europe; by a trade agreement formed in 1927 Swift Internacional, Armour, and English-owned Union Cold Storage share 69% of the South American-European beef trade. Son of Founder Gustavus Franklin Swift, President Swift went to no college, began work in the Stock Yards at an early age. He became a cattle-buyer, was made vice president of Swift & Co. in 1909, vice...