Word: lammot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pont $5,000 Lammot du Pont 5,000 Edward F. Hutton (General Foods) 5,000 Sewell Lee Avery (Montgomery Ward) 5,000 George Monroe Moffett (Corn Products) 5,000 Rufus Lenoir Patterson 2nd (American Machine & Foundry) 5,000 Samuel Bayard Colgate (Colgate-Palmolive-Peet) 5,000 Robert Sterling Clark (broker) . . 4,900 Archibald M. L. du Pont 2,500 Hal Roach (cinema comedies) . . 2,500 William Lockhart Clayton (cotton broker) 1,000 Renée W. Baruch (daughter) . . . 100 Mrs. Clarence Mackay...
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...
...Ponts were very suave, very self-possessed but not very well dressed. Brothers Lammot (president) and Irènée (vice chairman of the board) were in black, puffing pipes. Brother Pierre (chairman of the board) was dressed in brown. Cousin Felix (vice president) was handsome in pale grey with socks and tie to match. Like burlesque impresarios, munitions makers do not desire publicity. The du Fonts prepared for their ordeal by issuing a 42-page booklet (and a 13-page tract explaining the booklet) stating their company's position in the matter of munitions...
...Well," said Brother Lammot du Pont, "that was an extremely unusual procedure and not in accord with the company's policy...
...Lammot du Pont (E. I. du Pont de Nemours...