Word: pont
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Monsieur Danguy has been coach of the University fencing team since 1921, and has turned out several championship aggregations. His career has been a long and colorful one. After serving in the French army, Danguy graduated as a master at Joinville-le-Pont, and then taught, fencing for several years at the College of Rollen at Paris...
...Another prohibition announcement of last week came from Pierre Samuel Du Pont, retired board chairman of Mr. Ford's competitor, General Motors Corp. Mr. du Pont denied that Prosperity was due to prohibition, claimed the automobile, the radio, had replaced the saloon for recreation. Said he: "The iniquities of the saloon itself have been largely overdrawn. . . . The workingman gets all the spirituous liquor he wants at probably not a greatly increased price...
...Memorial of John J. Raskob (du Pont interests, General Motors, Democratic National Committee) in memory of his son, who was killed in a motor accident last summer (TIME, July...
Products of the new company can be described only in many pages of chemical formulae. Its Frankfort parent has a long list of products ? a list roughly comparable to that of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., Inc. Chief among these products...
Sued. Banker Thomas Coleman du Pont, Broker Jesse Lauriston Livermore, Promoter Addison Mizner, and eleven others; for $1,450,000; by 93 investors in the Boca Raton, Fla., development fiasco. The suit alleges that Mr. Mizner created an impression of having $100,000,000 in hand; that the Messrs, du Pont and Livermore allowed their names to be used as "sponsors...