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Died. Alfred Irénée du Pont, 70, purchaser, reorganizer and onetime (1902-16) head of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. (explosives, chemicals); of heart disease; at "Epping Forest," his estate near Jacksonville, Fla. An explosives expert, Alfred du Pont surprised his family by offering to buy the firm, then at low ebb, upon the death of Eugene du Pont in 1902. After increasing its assets from $15,000,000 to $82,000,000. he was ousted by his cousins Pierre Irénée and Lammot du Pont, with whom he maintained a bitter...
President Frank J. Swayze 2L expressed perfect confidence in the ability of the team to nose out Amherst, which presents the main threat, and Smith, which is rumored to have a number of expert flyers. It is not expected that the other colleges will figure heavily in the scoring...
...Offer. Not for one minute did Franklin Roosevelt, expert political horse trader that he is, weaken his bargaining power by admitting he would accept the Harrison compromise. But Senator Harrison flatly asserted that the President would accept it, for his bill offered a very nice compromise...
Every bonus bill has to be concocted by a mathematical expert who can make it look cheap to taxpayers, liberal to veterans, possible to the Treasury. Senator Harrison did not try to concoct anything so difficult out of his own head. He went to the Veterans' Administration, got its best wizard with figures to do the job. Assistant Administrator Harold Walker Breining is a fat, fortyish actuary who, since 1917, when he went overseas in field service for the Division of War Risk Insurance, has been making statistical tables dance jigs for the Government. Mr. Breining found...
Just to show what figure jugglers can do when they get started here is a little not of statistics prepared by a financial "expert" and passed around Washington bars and cloak rooms: "Population of U.S. reported at 124,000,000 "Those eligible for old age pensions under several plans 50,000,000 74,000,000 "Number of Government job holders and persons prohibited by child labor lawn from working 60,000,000 "Leaves just 14,000,000 "Persons unemployed 13,999,998 "Balance to produce the nations goods Just you and me, and I'm all worn...