Word: cousinly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, however, what most U. S. citizens consider the greatest munitions firm in the country was called to the carpet. Accompanied by a buzzing swarm of lawyers, secretaries and assistants, the three brothers du Pont, Pierre. Lammot, Irènée. with their cousin Felix, all of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., stepped into the white marble caucus room of the Senate Office Building to give their testimony. A square-jawed fact: the du Pont company had made a profit of $250,000,000 during the War, paid 195% in dividends, and salted its winnings away...
...Ponts were very suave, very self-possessed but not very well dressed. Brothers Lammot (president) and Irènée (vice chairman of the board) were in black, puffing pipes. Brother Pierre (chairman of the board) was dressed in brown. Cousin Felix (vice president) was handsome in pale grey with socks and tie to match. Like burlesque impresarios, munitions makers do not desire publicity. The du Fonts prepared for their ordeal by issuing a 42-page booklet (and a 13-page tract explaining the booklet) stating their company's position in the matter of munitions...
...Traveling Second Class. Prince George and his fiancee Princess Marina of Greece, his second cousin, emerged from the Balkans last week with her parents, put up at separate Paris hotels. Said she: "We came second class to economize, now that we are to set up housekeeping." From the Exchequer $50,000 per year is paid to Prince George, rising automatically to $125,000 upon his marriage...
Married. Rev. Dr. Thomas Todhunter Shields, 61, Dry Fundamentalist pastor of Toronto's Jarvis Street Baptist Church (TIME, Sept. 17): and Leota Alyne Griffin, 34, his secretary, cousin of his first wife; in Toronto...
...COUSIN F. MARION CRAWFORD? Maude Howe Elliott?Macmillan ($2.50). More about the late socialite writer, by the daughter of Julia Ward Howe, one of Newport's grandest oldest ladies...