Word: du
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...persons. A single contribution has been enough to get oneself listed as a member. Annual dues have not been collected. Only some 25,000 persons contributed last year. The bulk of the money for increasing the membership and influence has been contributed by wealthy members of the Pierre Samuel du Pont, Charles H. Sabin, Haley Fiske type. Until this year, the A. A. P. A. had only one office, in Baltimore. Its founder and guiding spirit, Captain William H. Stayton, was not dependent on the A. A. P. A. for his livelihood. Long before he began...
...Paris last week entertained a twitterer-Lieut-Col. Philippe-Jean Bunau-Varilla. Many present had known him in the U. S. He had been a co-worker with the late Ferdinand de Lesseps on the first attempt to dig a Panama canal. That project (by the French Campagnie Universelle du Canal de Panama) failed and Capt. Bunau-Varilla tried to persuade the U. S. to build a sea-level canal along the surveyed route. That was 27 years ago. Four years ago he was again in the U. S. This time he wore a wooden stump for his right...
...Lammot du Pont, Delaware Republican, Wet industrialist. Reason: Prosperity...
...Du Pont. Somebody in recent stock trading days has been buying Paramount-Famous-Lasky stock. That somebody, it became clear last week, was affiliated with E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., which among its multifarious investments controls Du Pont-Pathe Film Mfg. Co. (Eastman Kodak rival). So the inference gained credence in Wall Street that du Fonts would soon be on Paramount-Famous-Lasky's directorate...
...theories, got an audience. He became first president of the first Russian art review Mir Iskusstva (Artistic World), which Serge Diaghilev edited. He designed the scenery for Alexander Borodin's Prince Igor, for Stanislavsky's production of Peer Gynt, for Stravinsky's Le Sacre du Printemps. For this last one he also wrote the libretto. Then came the Russian revolutions. His St. Petersburg became Petrograd, Leningrad. He hustled to New York (1920). In Manhattan he founded the Master Institute of United Arts, "uniting all the arts and giving to young America the spirit of creation." He founded...