Word: packers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. Ann Elizabeth Cudahy, 22, granddaughter of Edward Aloysius Cudahy Sr. (Chicago and later Omaha meat packer); to Raymond Anthony Glenn ("Bob Custer"), 28, cinema actor; in Hollywood, Calif...
Married. Charles H. Swift, potent packer, to Claire Dux, famed Swiss soprano, opera star; in the University of Chicago Chapel...
Meanwhile Senator Norris, insurgent Nebraskan, contemplates again the worthwhileness of political life, the betrayals, the corruption, the callow honors. He recalls the "treason" his Progressive friends played him some years ago when they backed the Kenyon packer bill instead of his own packer bill. That day he collapsed in the Senate. Since, he has remained inexcitable over the rehashed chatter, begun by Mr. LaFollette in 1924, to give U. S. politics another Progressive orientation. Feeling that most of the institutions they are combating are as firmly embedded as ever, he now, as in 1924, turns toward the recourse of soft...
...Homeric (White Star)-H. Grindell-Matthews, death ray inventor; J. Ogden Armour, Chicago meat packer...
...this preposterous extravaganza of modern life, Mr. Cournos has shot his shafts blithely over the whole universe. There is, of course, not much more than a suggestion of the famed original Candide. In fact, the foreword has Candide objecting strenuously to his reincarnation as the son of a pork-packer, Cunegonde worrying about what's going to happen, and Pangloss not quite happy at being made a bootlegger. But this blithe young gravedigger has exhumed their altered corpses with such obvious relish that one has not the heart to quibble with what...