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...this release and announced a forthcoming line of canned fruits & vegetables. When the stockholders and potent directors of Armour & Co. met last week after the sudden, shocking death of President F. Edson White, it seemed at least probable that the last active Armour in the business, Vice President Philip Danforth Armour III (Lester Armour got out last December), would be stepped up to direct Armour destinies in the new era. But after five stormy hours they did not elect P. D. III to be president. Instead they invented and offered him the title of "Vice Chairman of the Board," which...
...daring financier was Jonathan Ogden Armour, heir to the meat-packing fortune of famed, hard-boiled old Merchant Philip Danforth ("P. D.") Armour (1832-1901). Sometimes J. Ogden would rush in and buy where more conservative tycoons feared to tread. Result: The great packing concern his father and he had built up found itself at the War's end overstocked with high-priced meat for the Allies. Armour's personal $150,000,000 fortune, involved in grain as well as meat, dwindled by $1,000.000 a day for some 130 days. He died in London in 1927 insolvent...
Lester Armour, 35, grandson of Philip Danforth Armour, resigned his directorship and vice-presidency of Armour & Co. Only Armour remaining in the organization is Grandson Philip Danforth Armour...
...campaign to retain his seat, he frankly asked for renomination and re-election "as a vote of confidence in Northwest Progressive Republicans who voted with Democrats against Administration policies." Wisconsin's insurgent Senator LaFollette went into South Dakota to campaign for him. His opponent was George Jonathan Danforth, whose major appeal was that he was a "Hoover Republican." In last week's voting South Dakota Republicans went anti-Hoover by 13,000 votes, renominated Senator McMaster. In the November election his Democratic opponent for the Senate will be William John Bulow, twice Governor of South Dakota...
...present were two still able women doctors-Ellen Alfleda Wallace, 77, and Mary Shepherd Danforth, 80, both of Manchester, N. H. Nodding to them venerably were Drs. George W. Gale, 93, of Saugus, Mass., Chester M. Ferrin, 93, of Burlington, Vt., and oldest of them all, probably the oldest medical graduate in the U. S., almost certainly the oldest practitioner, certainly the Medical Centre's cornerstone layer, Merritt Henry Eddy, 97, of Middlebury, Vt. The noise of the police motorcycles and sirens which accompanied the old doctors through Boston, the playing of the Navy Band before the Massachusetts State...