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...Having sold the automobile industry the idea of closed models instead of open, the Fishers then sold their great body plant to GM in 1926, receiving some $200,000,000 in GM stock and a voice in the management second only to E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. Du Pont owns 23% of GM's common stock and any outward sign of management ructions is always attributed to a clash between the du Ponts and the Fishers-usually with a sly reference to the fact that the Fishers backed Hoover in 1928 and the du Ponts backed Smith...
Irenee du Pont, of the Delaware du Fonts, Republican in days gone by, but a supporter of Smith in 1928, of Roosevelt in 1932; a generous donor to what he considers worthy causes...
...after the massacre at Jamestown, Va., the good ship Hopewell sailed up the James River to succor those who had settled at a point where the Appomattox flows into the James. For nearly three centuries thereafter the name of Hopewell had no fame. In October 1914 the du Pont company got an order from the French Government to manufacture nitrocellulose for smokeless powder. The No. 1 U. S. munitions concern built a huge nitrocellulose plant and a new town at Hopewell which before the Armistice had become a throbbing city of 40,000 souls. After the Armistice the du Pont...
...Ransom. Pa. the head farmer noticed his chickens scurry suddenly for cover. A hen hawk, he thought, must be about. Overhead he saw what looked like a huge predatory bird. The "hen hawk'' landed, turned out to be the sailplane Albatross II in which Richard du Pont made a world's record distance flight fortnight ago (TIME, July 9). Out stepped Lewin Bennitt Barringer, Philadelphia socialite, to explain he had just soared 80 mi. from Elmira. N. Y. where the fifth annual contest of the Soaring Society of America closed last week...
Gossip engaged Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. to Ethel du Pont, daughter of Sportsman-Horticulturist Eugene du Pont, director of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. Fumed the du Fonts: "There is absolutely nothing to the report." That evening the President's third son was a house guest at Miss du Pont's Wilmington debut...