Word: du
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lake Success, L. I., Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. & Wife Ethel du Pont (both in absentia) got firm tuts from a police court judge. In July they had been charged with racing each other in their cars; in August, they had got their cases postponed, twice. Now they failed to come to court. Declared the judge after a half-hour wait: if they didn't turn up next fortnight, he would really have to send...
Married. Eleuthere Irenee du Pont, 26, of the Cellophane-Nylon-gunpowder dynasty, and Arminda Rea Dunning, 20, of New Jersey; in Manhattan...
Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., 33, seemed to be going places fast. He was summoned to appear in traffic court on a charge of speeding at 52 m.p.h. in a playful race near U.N. headquarters on Long Island with wife Ethel du Pont Roosevelt (who got a summons, too). He was also appointed legal counsel for the A.F.L.'s Upholsterers International Union of North America...
...deal was managed by Hugh R. Sharp Jr., 37, cheerful, stolid son of the late Isabelle du Pont Sharp (sister of Irénée, Lammot and Pierre). Though Sharp, who shares Uncle Pierre's Wilmington office, minimized his family's holdings in Butler Bros, ("a good deal less than 10%"), there was no mistaking who was in the saddle. Sharp, who joined the Butler board early this year, last week persuaded President Thomas B. Freeman, 60, to kick himself upstairs into the board chairmanship. In as president went G. Robert Herberger, a handsome, hustling merchandiser...
Last week, as Bob came home from Chicago to St. Cloud to a 50-piece band, a Chamber of Commerce luncheon and a huge horseshoe of roses, he said enthusiastically: "Butler Bros, can become the General Motors of merchandise; the Du Ponts did it with automobiles. All the small-town merchant will have to do is stay home and take care of his store. Butler Brothers will do the rest...