Word: armours
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tommy Armour, one-eyed, Scottish-born professional of Detroit: by one hole, the Professional Golfers' Association championship, at Fresh Meadow Country Club, L. I., sinking a 12-ft. putt on the 36th hole against Gene Sarazen. ¶ Jimmy McLarnin, 140-lb. Pacific Coast Irishman: a fight at the Yankee Stadium, New York, from Al Singer, who won the world's lightweight championship two months ago (TIME, July 28) from battered Sammy Mandell; by a knockout; after 2 min. 21 sec. of the third round. McLarnin won no title because of the differences in weight...
...first round MacDonald Smith, who tied for first in the Open the year (1910) that Bobby Jones was nine years old, tied for the lead with one-eyed Tommy Armour, famed for his iron shots and erratic putting, who had 70. Johnny Farrell, 1928 Open champion, had an eight on the first hole, a two on the third, a six on the fourth, and then made three birdies in succession to keep in the running. Jones had 71, Walter Hagen, back from a tour of Japan and needing practice, had 72 and so did blond, loose-jointed Horton Smith...
Declared Bernard Edward Sunny, Board Chairman of Illinois' Bell Telephone Co., to the graduating class of Armour Institute of Technology at Chicago: "It's far better for a young man starting out in the world to have an exaggerated ego than an inferiority complex...
...Marguerite S. Milligan (14,000); James M. Hopkins (12,826); Irenee du Pont (12,500); Frank H. Buhl (10,720). Other U. S. Steel shareholders: President Frederick Brant Rentschler of United Aircraft (1,072); Lawyer Elihu Root Jr. (1,300); Theodore Roosevelt (20 preferred); Packer Philip D. Armour (1,245); Mrs. Ailsa Mellon Bruce, daughter of Secretary Mellon (3,428); President & Fellows of Harvard College (5,224 preferred); Union Theological Seminary (1,000 preferred...
...further confused by a shakeup, more important than appeared on the surface, within the Farm Board's agencies. Last December National Grain Corp. hired William G. Kellogg as general manager. Mr. Kellogg had been a Minneapolis cash grain dealer. His brother John had been involved in the Armour Grain Corp. fiasco which caused his suspension for two years from the Chicago Board of Trade. Early this year when wheat broke badly Grain Corp., with the Farm Board's sanction, organized Stabilization Corp. to go into the pit and trade on U. S. funds. William Kellogg was made...