Word: lammot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Brother Lammot?tall and serious?his hair neatly parted on one side?peering through spectacles?is in many ways a slim edition of massive brother Pierre. But they differ in temperament. Lammot is a worker, a studious realist, where Pierre is a creative planner, an expansive idealist. Like Pierre's, his laugh is quiet, almost silent, but unlike Pierre's his interests are few and confined. Pierre crusades, but not Lammot. Pierre has conservatories; Lammot, conservatism...
...directors of General Motors Corp. last week accepted the resignation of one member of the du Pont family as their chairman and straightway elected his brother in his stead. Outgoing was brother Pierre; incoming was brother Lammot. The directors also heard President Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr. report estimated 1928 earning of $276,468,108, an increase of some $41,000,000 over...
...Pont state of Delaware and brother Pierre is reputed to have wanted to retire from active business before the du Fonts ever bought into G. M. C. Moreover, it is a du Pont tradition for elders to make way for juniors. T. Coleman (elder cousin), Pierre, Irenee and Lammot were successive presidents of E. I. du Pont de Nemours...
...Eleuthere Irenee du Pont de Nemours began concocting friable messes of gunpowder in a squat stone house on Brandywine Creek, Delaware. Son Eleuthere Irenee had learnt his chemistry from Lavoisier.* clarified, refined, improved his formulae, passed them through to great-great-grandson Lammot du Pont, eighth president of the company...
Married. Esther du Pont, daughter of Lammot du Pont, Delaware chemicals & explosives tycoon; to Campbell Weir of the Bellanca Airplane Co. of New Castle, Del.; in Wilmington...