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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...usually identifiable as being in the Du Pont faction-Donaldson Brown, Du Pont treasurer until he switched to G.M. in 1921, Lammot du Pont Copeland, Emile F. du Pont, Henry B. du Pont, Chairman Albert Bradley, Executive Vice President Frederic G. Donner. As in many another company, there have often been arguments between the financial men in Manhattan and the automakers in Detroit. But did Detroit knuckle under? Says one former General Motors boss, Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson: "Du Pont never exerted any pressure...
...deductible loss, the "business" expense for a yacht, a car, a trip, even a country-club membership. But comparatively few are aware of another way of saving by the wise use of trusts and foundations, which can be set up for either charity or personal projects, and often reward the taxpayer with huge savings. Until recently only taxpayers in the 80% tax bracket ($500,000 or more annual taxable income on a joint return) took full advantage of trusts. Now, thousands upon thousands of smaller taxpayers in the 22% ($10,000 annually) and up brackets are learning that they...
...hawklike man with an ascetic face, Behn worked in an eyrie high in the tower of the company's Manhattan headquarters, an oak-paneled chamber in rich Louis XIV style, a painting of the late Pius XI behind his desk. Often he would gather aides to listen on earphones as he telephoned subsidiaries on every continent, suavely speaking in all major languages, a trader who could charm dictators and dicker deals in every monetary exchange...
...composer-conductor Eric Coates and a colonial official in the Far East, travels by emotional radar. He waits for snatches of dialogue, mystic moods, glimpsed scenes, to flash like pips across his screen of consciousness and tell him how a people feels or where it is going. Such pips often come at the oddest moments. A smartly dressed, tart-tongued Chinese career woman from Hong Kong brought Coates a pair of knitted socks after a business trip to Formosa. Asked the surprised Coates: "You knitted them in-in Taipei?" Quipped she sardonically: "Of course, dear. In Taipei everybody knits-nothing...
...like seeing places which are the most up-to-date of their kind in Europe; there is nothing more depressing ... In the world of today, which is as it is, slackness and corruption are often the saving graces of humanity and take the place of kindness and charity, and mercifully counteract the horrors of efficiency...