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...Font's Major K. K. V. Casey admitted that in 1925 40 tons of TNT shipped by du Pont to China left the U. S. in double containers, the outer marked "Explosives" according to U. S. Law. At sea, however, the outer containers were removed and the shipment eventually reached a war lord in Manchuria. "We had one put over on us," said Mr. Casey...
...Best of the interchanges took place between Senator Bennett Champ Clark and smoke-ring-blowing Irénée du Pont...
...Pont: Do you mean that President Wilson was dragged into the War at the instance of the munitions makers...
...Pont: I don't think it is nefarious to sell ammunition. The disorder is the nefarious thing...
...Pont (puffing hard on an empty pipe) : I beg your pardon...