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...Armour & Co. were in financial difficulties." So were Morris & Co. They merged-Armour buying out Morris-lock, stock...
Pressed by the Farmers' National Council and other lobbyists, the Department of Justice filed a complaint against the Armour-Morris merger. The packers insisted that the merger had been negotiated with the implied consent of the late Secretary, Henry C. Wallace, Mr. Jardine's predecessor. Government counsel denied this, insisted that Mr. Jardine should rule against the merger as a violation of the Packers and Stockyards...
...Jardine called a hearing. Lawyer-spokesmen for the companies arrived. Chief of the Armour lawyers was Alfred S. Austrian. His points...
...fusion of two firms does not violate the law unless it places one in a position of dominant control," which this fusion did not do, since Swift & Co. does more business than Armour and Morris combined. (Of all animals killed last year, Swift killed 24.2%, Armour-Morris 23.5%.) Besides, the big packers find that their sternest competition is with the 1,300 smaller packers...
...Come Again, Sweet Love," plaintively sang a number of young men in Chicago. They finished their piping; another group of male singers took their place, repeated the old ballad by John Dowland, arranged for chorus singing. Another and another group repeated the song; they were the glee-clubs of Armour, Beloit, Chicago, Grinnell, Illinois, Iowa, Knox, Lake Forest, Michigan, Millikin, Northwestern, Purdue, Wabash and Wisconsin colleges and universities. After every rendering of the ballad, judges made notes, announced at length that of all seats of learning in the mid-U. S., Wisconsin is sweetest of throat; Michigan is second, they...