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...Trade last week forbade the Armour Grain Co. (corporation entirely separate from Armour & Co., meat packers) from further trading on their grain exchange. Thus the directors punished the company for the knavery of Armour Grain Co. employes?their thievery, their defrauding of the Farmers Cooperative Grain Marketing Corp. with burnt grain (TiME, Mar. 14), and their desecration of the Board's prestige...
...money was a penalty for dishonesty and cheating by Armour Grain Co. employes. When their stores of grain were being sampled and priced for sale to the Farmers' company, they sneaked into their warehouses, in dead night, and altered samples of poor, bin-burnt grain to make it seem like good grain. And they falsified their books to claim more grain sold than actually existed. This was reprehensible, decided Arbitrator Brown. The buyers had no warning to beware; should not have needed such warning. J. Ogden Armour and his nephews Philip D. Armour and Lester Armour will have...
Last week a cinema actor* crouched on a cinder track at Pomona, Calif. He had been called the world's fastest human. A former Olympic star, he had burnt out, they said. Burnt or no, he would try again. Revolver barked; the cinemaman, sprang, antique legs hurled him onward. Paced by college lads he ran. Presently, head back, teeth set, he leaped through a tape. Timers announced that Charles Paddock (30-odd) had brought the world's record for 250 metres from 31.2 seconds down to 27.6. Southern Californians were pleased. "It's the air," they explained...
...Burnt Husband...
AFTER NOON?Susan Ertz?Appleton ($2). A burnt husband shuns the altar. Charles Lester, left with vivid twin daughters by a flighty runaway wife, guards his British independence, his tolerance and intelligence from further exposure. But an American widow's frank piquancy is too much for him. He marries her, and when she really learns that clinging-vine love is not for folk walking erect in the afternoon of life, they enter upon a happy ever-after. It is a cool, delightful study in mature emotions from the poised pen of the author of Nina and Madame Claire...