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...announced a forthcoming line of canned fruits & vegetables. When the stockholders and potent directors of Armour & Co. met last week after the sudden, shocking death of President F. Edson White, it seemed at least probable that the last active Armour in the business, Vice President Philip Danforth Armour III (Lester Armour got out last December), would be stepped up to direct Armour destinies in the new era. But after five stormy hours they did not elect P. D. III to be president. Instead they invented and offered him the title of "Vice Chairman of the Board," which he declined...
...been under severe nervous strain . . must have a rest. . . ." Beau Ideal (Radio ) . Photographically brilliant, but hindered by dreadful dialog and a silly story, this sequel to Capt. Percival Christopher Wren's Beau Geste is weak stuff in spite of the care that has been wasted staging it. Lester Vail joins the Foreign Legion to find Ralph Forbes and bring him back to Loretta Young. He gets to him just in time, for Forbes is dying in a desert grain pit. Beau Ideal's swaggering Legionnaires will delight only those who thought Beau Geste was the best picture ever...
...Neil of Boston; Banker Elisha Walker of Manhattan; Philanthropist Dennis Francis Kelly of Chicago; President Bernard Joseph Rothwell of Bay State Milling Co., Boston; Paul E. Fitzpatrick of Brown, Durrel Co., Boston; John Duff of New Bedford, Mass.; John F. Tensley of Worcester, Mass.; Vice President Michael Lester Madden of Hollingsworth & Whitney Co., Boston; Theodore F. McManus of Detroit.- Soon after making these appointments, His Holiness issued a mighty interpretation of the will of God, a 16,000-word encyclical addressed to his flocks, to the Knightly and the benighted. Its opening words: Casti Connubii ("Of Chaste Wedlock"). Justly...
Appointed last week by Vermont's Governor Weeks† to succeed the late Senator Frank Lester Greene was Frank Charles Partridge of Proctor, Vt. Senator-designate Partridge, 69, president of Vermont Marble Co., started as a page in the State Senate, was president of his Amherst class (1882, thirteen years before Calvin Coolidge), studied law at Columbia, served the U. S. State Department as its solicitor (1890-93). He has held minor diplomatic and consular jobs. Coincident with the Partridge appointment a general Senate election was ordered for Vermont on March 31, preceded by a party primary March...
...Lester Armour, 35, grandson of Philip Danforth Armour, resigned his directorship and vice-presidency of Armour & Co. Only Armour remaining in the organization is Grandson Philip Danforth Armour...