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...first official diplomatic visitor at No. 15 Dupont Circle (temporary "White House") was J. H. Van Roijen, newly appointed Minister from the Netherlands...
...content without her, the President brought Rebecca, famed raccoon, from the back yard (South grounds) of the White House to the back yard of No. 15 Dupont Circle. Rebecca rode with the President in his limousine...
...Over No. 15 Dupont Circle, late one afternoon last week, the Presidential flag dipped in the fresh breeze, rose for the first time to the top of the flagstaff there. Before the door of the white marble mansion, President Coolidge stood with his white collie, Rob Roy, posed for photographers, followed the dog over the threshold into his new home. Through the huge foyer he walked, past the costly Gobelin tapestry at his left, up the marble stairway lined with heads of mountain goats, lions, elk and caribou. Into the large room next to the library that...
...John McEntee Bowman (hotels) Pierre Samuel duPont (industries) Charles Franklin Kettering (General Motors vice president...
...Pont. "General Motors does not want to step on your foot," said General Motors' Chairman Pierre S. duPont to Henry Ford in 1921, according to onetime Ford Sales Manager Norval A. Hawkins. Salesman Hawkins testified further: "Mr. duPont knew that if Mr. Ford wanted to he could sell his car so cheap as to make Chevrolet high priced." In 1912 the Ford company could have sold cars at cost and still earned $1,325,000 or 66% on its then capitalization of $2,000,000. Today the company can sell cars at cost and profit from the sale...