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...powder mill that Eleuthere Irenée du Pont de Nemours built in 1802 on the banks of Delaware's Brandywine River has exploded into a vast corporation that did $3.6 billion worth of business last year, and now ranks 18th on FORTUNE'S roster of the largest U.S. industrial companies. Du Font's base remains in tiny Delaware, 47th in population among the states. That disparity in size intrigued Economist Lewis Anthony Dexter, who studied the situation in 1963 and concluded: "The elephant takes care not to dance among the chickens." It also intrigued Ralph Nader...
Engaged. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., 22, third son of the 32nd U. S. President, Harvard senior; and Ethel du Pont, 20, eldest daughter of retired Powdermaker Eugene du Pont, niece of Powdermakers Lammot, Pierre Samuel and Irenée du Pont; at Owls Nest, Greenville, Del., where Franklin Jr. was a week-end guest. Miss du Pont announced that their June wedding would not be at the White House...
...more than $40,000,000 per day. Last week it was flowing back at about the same rate. Some stubborn hoarders, wise to the law, knew they had obtained their gold legally before March 6 and that the U. S. had no Constitutional power to punish them retroactively. Irenée du Pont & wife turned in at Wilmington a 20-year collection of gold pieces paid him for attending board meetings of E. I. du Pont de Nemours...
Manufacturer Irenée du Pont of Delaware said last week: "I have always voted the straight Republican ticket, and I am still hoping that something may yet happen between now and the Presidential election which will allow me to vote that ticket again, conscientiously, this year. But then, I always have been of an optimistic disposition." Mr. du Font's worries -Prohibition, corruption, lawbreaking...
...former Alicia du Pont, daughter of Alfred I. du Pont (potent Wilmington, Del. financier) is now engaged in divorcing herself from one Harold Glendenning, Rhodes scholar, son of a mail carrier (TIME, June 7). The former Margarette du Pont, daughter of Irenée du Pont (onetime President of E.. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.-explosives, industrial chemicals) is now married to one C. H. Greenwalt, Philadelphia chemist. (TIME, June...