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...more miles to Chatham, Ont. behind a police escort, arrived at 1 a. m. Then they performed an emergency abdominal operation on Mrs. Fred M. Zeder, wife of Chrysler Corp.'s famed chief engineer. In a stateroom of the Santa Fe Chief, Mrs. John J. Mitchell, onetime Lolita Armour, whose cure from a congenital malformation of the hip by Vienna's famed ''bloodless surgeon," Dr. Adolph Lorenz, made huge headlines in 1902, waited nervously for the train to take her from Chicago to her summer home in Santa Barbara, Calif. With her were a Negro nurse...
...young Strotz who finally showed him how to finance it. He got several sport-loving businessmen of his own kind -Vincent Bendix, John F. Jelke, Jr., Vice President B. A. Massee of Colgate-Palmolive-Peet, Grain Trader James Norris- to go on the board. People like Jack Mitchell (Lolita Armour's husband) and Clement Studebaker, as well as most directors, bought stock...
...widow, Lolita Sheldon Armour, sold their beautiful 838-acre estate, Mellody Farm (on the "North Shore" near Lake Michigan, in Lake Forest), and almost all her private securities, but still there were creditors. Then she offered them 400 shares of Universal Oil Products Co. for which, when he was most needy, she had paid her husband $1,500,000 of her own fortune. The creditors laughed, said the stock was a liability...
...Lolita Sheldon Armour, relict of the late great Meatpacker Jonathan Ogden Armour, and her daughter, Mrs. John J. Mitchell Jr., closed the affairs of the Armour estate in Chicago. The estate being insolvent for $2,000,000, Mrs. Armour and Mrs. Mitchell relinquished claims to loans for that amount. When he died (TIME, Aug. 29, 1927) the Chicago Journal of Commerce said of Meatpacker Armour: "He probably had the distinction of having lost more money than any man that ever lived...
...Younger Mitchells, the most famed is gay and debonair John J. Mitchell Jr. His marriage to Lolita Armour, meatpacker's heiress, thrilled society in the U. S. & Europe. This Armour connection assumed possible importance when Chicagoans recalled that the name of Philip D. Armour heads the list of directors of the Continental National Bank & Trust Co., whose stock, like that of Illinois Trust, has been skyrocketing. Close are the ties which bind the Armour interests and Continental. President Arthur Reynolds of Continental is also a director and member of the finance committee of Armour...