Word: armours
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dispatches from Nanking and Athens, was conferring with his aides in his yellow-&-green Suite 200 at the Quitandinha. Ambassadors William Dawson and Walter Donnelly were acquainted with every Latin American problem, and Donnelly seemed to know every Latin delegate. Bill Pawley was sharp on Brazilian angles. Shrewd Norman Armour, onetime Ambassador in B.A., understood the Argentine way of thinking. Arthur Vandenberg's practiced eye never wandered off the high policy line...
Like Cordell Hull before him, Marshall made the rounds of the Latin chiefs of mission. The Latinos liked him. Said Peru's slim Foreign Minister Enrique Garcia Sayan: "He has gone far beyond the needs of diplomatic good taste." Flanked by Armour and Donnelly, Marshall paid a visit to Quitandinha's Suite 400, the rooms of Argentine Foreign Minister Juan Bramuglia. The Argentines served beer, whiskey, potato chips, but the abstemious Marshall took nothing. When he left, an Argentine said: "The conference is all fixed...
...black, underprivileged, but unmistakably talented, is the hero of Ludwig Bemelmans' third whimsical novel. Moses Fable was the fleshy, flashy chief of Hollywood's Olympia Studios. Bemelmans (Hotel Splendide, I Love You, I Love You, I Love You) gets more out of a pig than Swift and Armour (they miss the whimsy as well as the squeal). Dirty Eddie becomes a $5,000-a-week movie star who earns himself swill-pails of fan mail...
...fill the hole left by Spruille Braden, the President this week picked a different sort of peg: veteran Career Diplomat Norman Armour, who retired in 1945 after 30 years of able service that took him from Leningrad to Madrid. Careerman Armour was slated to take over a new, expanded job as Assistant Secretary for Political Affairs...
...spoken Raymond Fernand Loewy, 54, a French-born engineer who parlayed a stake of 20? into a $3,000,000-a-year business in industrial designing. As one of the top U.S. industrial designers, Loewy's list of clients has grown to impressive lengths, including the Pennsylvania Railroad, Armour. Frigidaire, International Harvester, Lockheed, Greyhound, and 87 other big corporations. With a staff numbering less than 250, he has boldly taken on all comers. He designed the Studebaker car, the Lucky Strike package, refrigerators, stoves, radios, lipstick tubes, locomotives, ships, department stores, pens, and thousands of other items. (Almost...