Word: armours
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bristles, Blood and Bones. There is Philip Danforth Armour, burnsided, frock-coated and wing-collared, an impassioned believer in human perfectibility who is supposed to have said: "I like to turn bristles, blood, bones and the insides and outsides of pigs and bullocks into revenue now, for I can turn the revenue into these boys and girls [who were supported by Armour funds], and they will go on forever." There is curly-haired, German-Jewish Nelson Morris, who got his start by investing his savings in pigs whose legs had been broken in transit and who is supposed to have...
Argentina's Brigadier General Luis Cesar Perlinger, eagle-beaked, supernationalist Minister of the Interior, swung a haymaker at able U.S. Ambassador Norman Armour. Said Perlinger: "It is not possible to smile at an Ambassador of a country which does not maintain relations with the owner of the house. I am the first to assume an angry face toward such a man, and every Argentine must do the same...
...Front. Perón had won a victory. He quickly won another. The U.S. State Department was trying to form a united hemisphere front against the regime of Peron's stooge, anti-U.S. Vice President Edelmiro Farrell (who had forcibly replaced President Pedro Ramirez). U.S. Ambassador Norman Armour was instructed to "refrain from entering official relations" with Farrell. British Ambassador David Kelly got the same order. Latin nations were supposedly "consulting...
...Department was thoroughly scooped on the Bolivian revolt. No hint or word of the impending uprising had come from the U.S. Ambassador, socialite Pierre de Lagarde Boal (rhymes with goal), an elegant career diplomat whose dispatches have unfailingly reflected the views of Bolivian tin-mine owners. From able Norman Armour, Ambassador to Argentina, there had been hints of forthcoming trouble, but since Norman Armour's business is Argentina, they were no more than that. The State Department had no solid, fresh information on which to base judgments on Bolivian affairs...
Laurance & Lester Armour and Joseph M. Cudahy got gouged by their Chicago corner butchers, according to OPA. Investigators of violated price ceilings reported that the Armours had paid 10? a Ib. too much for hamburger and Cudahy 8? too much for sirloin...