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...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...
Promoter Halle. Had it not been for bigheaded, grey-wigged, hooknosed, bespectacled little Promoter Halle, now 62, even Ogden Armour's daring would not have borne fruit. Promoter Halle rushed back & forth between his Chicago and Manhattan apartments and his farmhouse in Westchester County (all full of expensive antiques, which he collects passionately) to promote Carbon Petroleum Dubbs's inventions and to direct patent suits such as the one against Standard of Indiana, which already has cost $1,800,000, is still to come to trial. Previously he had helped Armour retrieve a failing investment, Standard Asphalt & Rubber...
...pipes in dulcet tones Manhattan's newest sweet singer, Ogden Nash. You will look in vain among these Hard Lines for one that tells of saddest thought; Poet Nash is cheerfully up-to-date. A determined rhymester, he bends words to his will...
HARD LINES?Ogden Nash?Simon & Schuster...
With a total of 260 votes Robert Schuyler Ogden of Brookline was elected Ivy Orator, while Paul Brooks, of Cedarhurst, New York and president of the Harvard Lampoon won the position of Orator by a great majority...