Word: packers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Samuel Wilson came to Troy from New Hampshire. Brickmaker, distiller, farmer, merchant, meat packer, he waxed rich. Everybody called him Uncle Sam Wilson. When the War of 1812 began one Elbert Anderson got a contract to provision U. S. troops. Anderson arranged with Wilson to secure and pack pork and beef for the army. On the casks and barrels Wilson had written E. A.U. S., meaning from Contractor Anderson to the United States. Visitors saw the containers thus labelled on a wharf for shipment to Newburgh and Greenbush, asked the watchman what the initials stood for. He declared...
...smart audience was also hypnotized into perfect behavior. It arrived punctually, never once applauded at the wrong time, saved its coughs for intermissions. After the con cert there gathered backstage Chairman Clarence Hungerford Mackay of the Phil harmonic Board of Directors, Banker Otto Hermann Kahn, Soprano Lucrezia Bori, Packer Charles Henry Swift and his wife Soprano Claire Dux, Pianist Jose Iturbi, Violinist Joseph Szigeti. Hovering benignly about was tall, handsome Bruno Zirato, onetime personal representative of Enrico Caruso, engaged this year to fill the same sort of position for Toscanini...
...Albert Sirmay and Arthur Schwartz, scenery by Joseph Urban, Princess Charming might have been a presentation more on the lavish side than on the entertaining. The fact that it has sparkle and distinction is almost entirely attributable to blithe, blonde, beauteous Jeanne Aubert, the French comedienne whose husband (Packer Nelson Morris of Chicago) lately sought to enjoin her from taking part in theatricals. Audiences were delighted with her genuine Franco-American accent,* her thoroughgoing naughtiness, her lip-twisting method of vocal delivery -first brought to fame when she popularized the Parisian songlet Si Tu Vois Ma Tante...
Died. William E. Swift, 35, son of Louis Franklin Swift, Chicago meat- packer; by his own hand with a revolver in Dr. Edward Spencer Cowles's Park Avenue sanitarium for rich neurasthenics, dope-fiends and alcoholics (TIME, June 9), on the same floor where Actress Jeanne Eagels died in convulsions (TIME, Oct. 14). He had been under Dr. Cowles's care for eight months. Some hours before the suicide Swift's nurse saw the revolver strapped to his arm, told Dr. Cowles. Dr. Cowles instructed the weapon be removed when Swift fell asleep. Dr. Charles Norris...
...them: Robert Julius Thorne, one-time president of Montgomery Ward & Co.; Charles F. Glore of Field, Glore & Co.; Albert Blake Dick Jr. (mimeographs); President DeForest Hulburd of Elgin National Watch Co.; Clayton Mark (steel); Cyrus Hall McCormick (harvesters) ; President Fred Wesley Sargent of Chicago & Northwestern Ry.; Louis Franklin Swift (packer...