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...state between them with a casual gesture. One clan, of course, is the famed Du Pont family whose industries make everything from dynamite to dainty ladies' hand-mirrors. To the Senate they have sent T. Coleman du Pont, Republican. The other tribe bears the name of Bayard. Many centuries ago, its forefathers sprang from the loins of Chevalier de Bayard, that knight sans peur et sans reproche. In the U.S. the Bayards have been in the Senate with surprising regularity since the days of Thomas Jefferson. Now there sits as the colleague of Senator du Pont, one Thomas...
Last week, Senator Bayard, in his role of Treasurer of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, decided that he was sick of Republican talk; so he ruffled his flowing, black silk necktie and emitted a broadside against President Coolidge. Said he: "The Republicans have been banking on Coolidge popularity but are now trying to sell the President personally to the country through a press agent-Bruce Barton-who is best known as the author of the book The Man Nobody Knows. This is simply an effort to draw red herring across the trail of the dismal record of the complete failure...
...their graves, four onetime Bayard Senators must have chuckled proudly, said: "Nice work, Tom-you have that old Bayard fight in you." The four† dead had once been fighters: 1) James Asheton Bayard, Senator (1805-13), battled for the election of Thomas Jefferson against Aaron Burr. 2) Richard Henry Bayard was first mayor of Wilmington, Del., Senator (1836-45), Chief Justice of Delaware Supreme Court...
...rest of his fortune he left to his family, friends, and servants. His elder son, Bayard Dodge, is President of the American University in Beirut, Syria, which began as a missionary enterprise and to which the late Mr. Dodge gave much. $20,000,000 was the estimated value of the estate...
Within a few minutes Vice President appointed the investigating committee: Reed of Missouri and Bayard (Democrats), LaFollette (Progressive Republican), Reed of Pennsylvania and Deneen (Republicans). But three of these promptly withdrew?Reed of Pennsylvania, Deneen and Bayard. In their places were appointed Fernald, Goff and King. Fernald withdrew and Mr. Dawes named McNary. The reason for the numerous withdrawals were chiefly connected with the coming campaign...