Word: ponte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Vote. A two-thirds vote was required to approve the resolution. Ninety-three Senators answered to their names. Senator Du Pont who has been ill for several weeks was absent; so was Senator Dill of Washington and Senator Greene of Vermont, who earlier in the afternoon had fainted on the floor, been attended by Senator-Dr. Copeland and sent home. Senator Dill (Democrat), against the Court, was the third absentee...
...cream does not run down the hills; checkbooks do not grow on trees in Florida. Last week in Manhattan a dozen prominent Floridians gathered to protest against the reckless and fraudulent exploitation which is hurting their state. Governor John W. Martin of Florida was in the chair. Coleman Du Pont sat by. Said Herman A. Dann, President of the State Chamber of Commerce: "I bewail . . . . those fictionists and self-serving plungers whose work and words are an abomination...
...business world, like a catalytic agent, without itself changing character. Purely, austerely scientific are the training and practice of a modern chemist. Of enormous commercial value, and hence of social significance, are his works where he is employed, he and a thousand brother experimenters, by interests like Du Pont, Ford, Eastman, Bell and the U. S. Government...
...were distributed among its directors for the most part; subsequently, they became concentrated in individual hands, and control of the Company passed in rapid succession from Henry B. Hyde to James Hazen Hyde to Thomas F. Ryan to the elder J. P. Morgan and finally to T. Coleman du Pont. Mr. Ryan placed stock in the hands of trustees for the benefit of the policyholders, and subsequent owners followed his example...
Ever since 1917, the Company as well as its policyholders have desired to acquire all the stock, and in that year General du Pont agreed to turn over his stock to trustees. In February, 1918, all but 23 shares were obtained, trusteed and a "plan of mutualization" was practically accomplished...