Word: lammot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Monsanto Chemical, whose dignified diversion is Republican politics (finance committee) in Democratic Missouri; scholarly Henning Webb Prentis Jr., president of Armstrong Cork, No. 1 U. S. linoleum producer; rock-ribbed John Howard Pew, president of Sun Oil Co., financial angel of the Republican Party in Pennsylvania; long-nosed Lammot du Pont, beardless patriarch of the U. S.'s most famed family industry; Du Pont-in-law Donaldson Brown, vice chairman, financial and labor policy man of General Motors; the retiring president of N. A. M., courtly Howard Coonley of Walworth Co., whose valve business has not been doing...
...visitors to Dean Russell's Congress jampacked Columbia's biggest hall, its gymnasium and two overflow meeting rooms to hear democracy defended. Present were delegates from 26 noneducational organizations, and an equal number of educators, some 3,000 all told. National Association of Manufacturer's Lammot du Pont rubbed elbows with C. I. O.'s James B. Carey. Only urgent business in Atlantic City and Paris kept away A. F. of L.'s William Green, France's Edouard Herriot (they sent messages). Among the speakers were bigwigs from Poland, Sweden and no fewer than...
...Lammot du Pont and Ernest T. Weir are two of the most intransigent foes the New Deal has among big businessmen. It was fitting, therefore, that when the markets began celebrating last week's Republican triumph Messrs. Weir and Du Pont's stocks should lead all the rest...
...Jones's hearers took this lambasting in stony silence. The next night at the final convention dinner in the Hotel Willard, their reaction to 68 honor guests was equally frank. Cabinet members Frances Perkins and Henry Wallace got a cool reception; Lammot du Pont drew thunderous applause; ultra-conservative Justice James Clark McReynolds brought down the house...
Inventories. Since most economists have stoutly maintained ever since the present depression began that with a few exceptions 1937 inventories were low, it was striking that Messrs. Eccles, Knudsen and Wood were agreed that inventories had lately been at abnormal peaks. Other Senate Committee witnesses last week included Lammot du Pont and William Green and the latter also commented on high inventories...