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...vast churchbuilding program, at one time scheduling no fewer than 100 houses of God for construction over a period of ten years. Last week word reached the U. S. of the latest Les Chantiers du Cardinal-the Cardinal's building jobs. Soon to arise at Joinville-le-Pont, where the French cinema industry is largely centred (Paramount and Pathe studios and laboratories, Kodak-Pathe film factory), is a church for local workers. Its name: Notre-Dame...
...meeting of the Philadelphia Regional Safety Conference, Liberty Leaguer Lammot du Pont, president of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., declared his conviction that traffic-regulating signs are dangerous because they tend to confuse drivers' minds. Publisher David Stern's pink Philadelphia Record editorialized: "The next time Mr. du Pont sponsors a political organization that is opposed to government regulation of the power industry, or the stock market, or the monetary system, remember that Mr. du Pont also is opposed to traffic lights...
Instead, out stepped newlyweds Mr. & Mrs. Nicholas Ridgley du Pont (TIME, Sept. 20), brother and sister-in-law of Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. Photographers' bulbs popped all about them. Sighed Mrs. du Pont: "Our honeymoon so far has been nothing but a continuous flash in the face...
...Montgomery Ward, U. S. Steel, Du Pont, Sherwin-Williams and International General Electric, and other firms with Mexican customers, the new tax was a new headache. It fails to make any allowance for the fact that some transactions result in losses. It seriously affects contracts already made with Mexican buyers without expectation of the added cost. It will also result in double taxation for any concern which maintains an office in Mexico, since such offices already pay income taxes. According to the new decree, these offices will be entitled to a rebate, but U. S. exporters sniffed that the chance...
Married. Nicholas Ridgley du Pont, 20, brother of Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr.; to Genevieve Livingston Estes, 21, of Jacksonville, Fla.; in Jacksonville...