Word: armours
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sired by Failure. Poor, proud, tough and relatively small, the packinghouse union was born in 1937 of the repeated failures of the A.F. of L. and independent unions to wring concessions from the "Big Four" packers (Swift, Armour, Cudahy & Wilson). At the core of its membership are Negro/Irish, Slav and Mexican knockers, hog-splitters, blood-catchers and miscellaneous workers who do the hard, dangerous, foul-smelling labor in the huge packing plants...
...years, Norman Armour had steered a steady, able course through troubled diplomatic waters: the Red Revolution in Leningrad, The Hague in 1920-21, Rome in the mid-'20s, Tokyo, Paris in the worst years of the depression, Canada, Argentina in the troubled times of 1939-44, then Francisco Franco's Madrid...
...everything a career diplomat should have: he was wealthy, studious, shrewd, affable, full of both principle and humor. Colleagues in the State Department regarded him with awe. One of them once said: "You can't compare Armour to anyone else in the service; he's one of a species, like Lincoln...
...Armour was ready to step down. Like the good diplomat he was, he gave no reasons other than fatigue and a sense of duty done. But it was clear that he had found few satisfactions in Madrid; he told newsmen that he had observed no effective opposition to Franco inside Spain, no signs of reform...
Perhaps by giving two thankless jobs in a row to Norman Armour (who was said to have been eager for the Paris assignment), the State Department had used poor diplomacy toward one of its ablest diplomats. At a time when the foreign service desperately needed good men, it could have used him longer...