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...such as are predicted by enthusiastic protagonists of the scheme. Note that Mr. Henry Ford made no commitment on this scheme, that the prominent representatives of the automobile industry who were officially announced as speakers actually neither spoke nor attended and that Mr. Irénée du Pont described alcohol blending with gasoline as an economic waste...
...William du Pont's Rosemont, Jockey Wayne Wright up: the Withers Stake, with Omaha, William Woodward's winner of the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness, second by 1½ lengths; at Belmont Park...
Left. By the late Alfred Irénée du Pont, reorganizer and onetime head of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. (TIME, May 6): an estate estimated as high as $100,000,000; in Jacksonville, Fla. To his third wife, Mrs. Jessie Ball du Pont, go $200,000 a year, his Florida estate, "Epping Forest," his art collection, his yachts. To his four children and a brother-in-law executor, 5,000 shares each in his personal holding company, Almours Securities Inc. To other relations and retainers, securities and annuities. Income from the bulk of the estate...
...Pont treated his guests more handsomely than Mr. Ford treated his guests the week before. After giving the tycoons, farmers' spokesmen, chemists, propagandists and journalists a neat New Englandish lunch, Mr. Ford took his richest guest, Irénée du Pont (middle brother), away for a private conference. Pierre du Pont regaled his guests, practically every last man of whom would have liked a job with the Du Ponts, with a splendid twilight dinner in the ballroom of his gorgeous greenhouse. An organ recital soothed the diners, and colored lights playing on the estate's fountains...
...chemists, propagandists and journalists squiggled their names below Mr. Garvan's. When they all had signed and the Fordson High School band had saluted their gesture with the "New World" symphony, "Coronation Banner" and "The Star Spangled Banner," two expected names were lacking. Henry Ford and Irenee du Pont, after lunching with the propagandists, had decamped for an isolated afternoon together...