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...Well," said Brother Lammot du Pont, "that was an extremely unusual procedure and not in accord with the company's policy...
...investigation proceeded, it became increasingly difficult to believe the du Pont thesis that military explosives, small though it appeared, is a business in which the firm takes no interest, would gladly be without. Evidence was introduced to show that in February 1933 the company signed a contract with one Del Sungo Giera, active throughout the War as a spy both for the Germans and the Allies, secretly to provide munitions for Germany. Suddenly reminded of the Versailles Treaty the company tore up this contract and substituted another saying that they would ship no munitions to Germany without the approval...
...speaking of these and other documents, du Pont officials kept referring to what they called the "Poison Label," a special mark placed on secret documents in the company files that were to be read only by Senate committee investigators or du Pont directors. The "Poison Label" turned out to be a square rubber stamp that read...
...Major K. K. V. Casey of the du Pont company kept the stamp on his desk and had sole responsibility as to which of the du Fonts' vast bales of incriminating documents deserved the "Poison Label" and which did not. Donald Y. Wemple is a minor employe of the Nye Committee...
...Pont lawyers, headed by their chief, Col. William J. ("Wild Bill") Donovan, had been hard at work. Investigators were ready to disclose for the record the du Fonts' contributions to recent political campaigns. Hastily the committee decided to postpone further questioning of the du Fonts until after November elections...