Word: armours
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Walter Hagen, five times winner, failed to qualify. Tony Manero, U. S. Open champion, played 123 holes three under par and groaned about his putting. One-time Champions Tommy Armour, Paul Runyan and Gene Sarazen were all put out the same morning and the defending champion, Johnny Revolta, was beaten in the afternoon. Jimmy Thomson, famed as the husband of onetime Cinemactress Viola Dana and the longest driver in golf, wore the same green socks every day, washing them himself at night. His conviction that they brought him luck was not contradicted by victories over Henry Picard, Harold McSpaden, Craig...
...Canadian, seven U. S. stockyards. In 1920, to avoid Government prosecution under anti-trust laws, Swift and the other big packers signed "consent decrees" pledging themselves to get rid of stockyard holdings. Wilson and Cudahy divorced themselves from their relatively small stockyard interests within a few years, Armour took until 1928. Swift, by far the largest owner of stockyards, litigated, delayed, took the last four years to find a purchaser, agree to details...
...visiting sovereign. John Buchan, first Baron Tweedsmuir, Governor General of Canada and the person of His Majesty the King in the Dominion, met the Presidential special, accompanied by Canadian Premier William Lyon Mackenzie King, Lieut. Governor Esioff Léon Patenaude of Quebec and U. S. Minister Norman Armour. With an escort of Royal Canadian Dragoons trotting beside him, President Roosevelt was driven up through the narrow streets of French Quebec to the heights of Dufferin Terrace...
Before he died insolvent in London in 1927, Jonathan Ogden Armour sold to his wife for $1,500,000 a few stock certificates in an unknown company called Universal Oil Products. The Chicago meat packer had backed the little company because it controlled an oil-cracking process developed by that appropriately-named inventor, Carbon Petroleum Dubbs. After her husband's death Lolita Sheldon Armour offered her 400 shares of Universal Oil to the Armour creditors, who scorned them. Four years later the Widow Armour, Carbon Petroleum Dubbs and a handful of other stockholders sold out to a group...
...Chicago's Passavant Memorial Hospital last week lay Philip Danforth Armour IV, great-grandson of the packing house founder, with a light attack of infantile paralysis. A few miles away lay lightly stricken his distant cousin, Charles Armour, in his own Lake Forest home. Both contracted the disease presumably at St. Mark's, whence their parents snatched them last month at first word of epidemic. To a hospital room next to their son went Philip Danforth Armour III and his wife Gwendolin. Said the mother: "It is worth the risk to stay near him." Fourteen years ago Philip...