Word: armours
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tommy Armour...
...Last Armour. Since the big white Rolls-Royce of J. Ogden Armour disappeared from the boulevards of Chicago, and his fortunes crashed and he died in London, the cycle of his family has swung low, then started up again. Last month his widow realized handsomely on one of his characteristic plunges, an investment in the oil-cracking process of Inventor Carbon Petroleum Dubbs (TIME, Jan. 21). And last month the Supreme Court released Chicago packers from the consent decree of 1920 by which they were obliged to restrict themselves to the meat business despite competition in meats from the grocery...
Died. Frank Edson White, 57, up-from-the-bottom president of Armour & Co. (meats), vice president of Armour Leather Co., a director of Continental Illinois Bank & Trust Co., Stock Yards National Bank, American Surety Co., and Chase National Bank (New York); by falling from a seventh-story apartment; in Chicago. Night before, at a dinner at the packing plant restaurant, he had fallen accidentally from the speakers' platform, hurt his head. It was not believed that the injury was serious, but he complained of feeling unwell. His friend Treasurer Philip L. Reed of Armour & Co. left him alone...
...Armour...
...distinguished-looking, keen-eyed Mrs. Armour this good fortune meant the added satisfaction of being able to receive her old friends under more fitting circumstances than she had been able to in the modest Sheridan Road flat she has occupied (though with pride and dignity) for almost four years. To Inventor Dubbs, who has been living quietly on his Universal Oil Products salary and dividends at Wilmette, III. it meant wealth on which he may take his first vacation in 20 years and by which he may give his three children future advantages. That he will not spend it lavishly...