Word: packer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last month but he still has the bristle and bustle that he had in 1897 when, aged 29, he read that Mr. Curtis of Maine had acquired the Post, a 16-page sheet of 1,800 circulation. Lorimer, a Boston newshawk, lately stenographer in the office of Chicago Packer Philip Danforth Armour,* telegraphed Mr. Curtis for an appointment, after ten minutes' conversation had a job on the Post...
...Rockefeller McCormick, pouring, looking pale & wan; crippled Robert Hall McCormick cheerily greeting everyone from his wheel chair; Mr. & Mrs. Chauncey McCormick; Mrs. Fowler (Fifi Stillman) McCormick. and many another of the Clan McCormick. Ill abed, Harold McCormick sent roses. A late arrival?he had been to the funeral of Packer Edward Foster Swift (TIME, June 6)?was Col. Robert Rutherford McCormick, publisher of the Chicago Tribune. For him especially this was an important event. It was the opening of an exhibition of 15 portraits painted by his wife, Amy Irwin McCormick...
Died. Edward Foster Swift, 68, board chairman of Swift & Co. (meat packing); killed instantly in a fall from a window of his apartment which he had apparently thrown open after breakfast; in Chicago. His waiting chauffeur witnessed the headlong plunge. Though his brother Charles Henry first announced that Packer Swift had been in poor health, had been planning an immediate European vacation, he later stated his brother "had been in his usual good health and spirits. . . . His affairs are in excellent condition." Packer Swift's son said: "Father was always insisting on fresh air." Second of the six able...
Professor C. T. Copeland will be resident in Hollis Hall as he has been for many years, and Mr. Henry Penny-packer. Chairman of the Committee on Admissions, will be resident in Grays Hall...
...years George Armsby had been vice president of J. K. Armsby Co. with headquarters in San Francisco. The firm had grown until it was the biggest packer of California dried fruits, biggest distributor of salmon, second biggest distributor of California canned fruits and vegetables. He decided that one big firm combining all functions of the industry, amalgamating big competitors, should be formed. To do so he had to convince some one that he should lend 16 million dollars...