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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...
Another kind of gold hunt goes on in Canada, where, since sterling went off gold, the Government has paid a premium for gold to make up for the depreciation of the Canadian dollar. Canadian producers getting 37.78% more than the pre-Depression price per ounce ir making exciting profits. Mines are stepping up production, prospectors scouring Northern Canada in hope of new discoveries. With the U. S. gold hunt so unprofitable, U. S. businessmen have been rushing to join the Canadian hunt. Last week two U. S. expeditions, each including a famed U. S. ex-athlete, were flying into Canada...
When about two and a half years ago Florida's banking structure was toppling, a Strong Man came to save it. He was Alfred Irénée du Pont, stormiest of the great Wilmington family. Last week he was still continuing Florida's financial salvage...
...Alfred Irénée du Pont is 67, has one eye and an irascible nature. His 500-acre estate ("Nemours") near Wilmington is guarded by a high, barbaric wall. Firmly cemented in its top are great jagged pieces of glass. The gates are made of iron grillwork backed with steel sheeting. No unwelcome eye may look at "Nemours," no unwelcome feet tread its lawns...
...afraid to be in Cuba last week were numerous merrymaking socialites, among them Mr. & Mrs. Irénée du Pont of Wilmington, Del., Prince & Princess Tokugawa of Japan, Princess Alexandra-Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein, Bishop James E. Freeman of Washington and U. S. Ambassador Harry F. Guggenheim, whose dinner-party-of-the week was lavish...