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Lammot du Pont (E. I. du Pont de Nemours...
Wilmington, Del. is famed as the seat of the du Pont plants and patriarchy. New Castle, six miles south, an ancient and lovely architectural museum whose inhabitants still benefit from the 1,068 acres William Penn deeded them in 1701, occasionally makes a little news paragraph when the warden of the county jail legally uses his cat-o'-nine-tails on a darky chicken thief. Thirty-eight miles still farther south in Delaware is an important little town almost never heard of: Dover, founded in 1717 by William Penn on the St. Jones River...
Dover (pop. 4,800) is the nation's third smallest State capital.* Its main street is a continuation of famed du Pont highway. Facing the highway, a handsome Colonial building on a spacious green houses minuscule Delaware's equally minuscule General Assembly. In the House there are 21 Democrats, 14 Republicans. The Republicans control the Senate of 17 by one vote. Because Dover is no more than 60 mi. from any adjoining State border, Delaware's 52 Legislators for the most part commute to work by automobile. One hundred and fifty other State officials and employes live...
Married. Lammot du Pont, 53, board chairman of General Motors Corp., president of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.; and Margaret A. Flett, Wilmington clubwoman; in Wilmington. His first three wives: Natalie D. Wilson (died); Bertha Taylor (died); Caroline Hynson Stollen-werck (divorced...
...work as a consulting engineer, helped him in his early researches. He expected substantial backing also from General Motors until Depression upset his plans. Last March he organized Seadrome Ocean Dock Corp., with himself as president and majority stockholder. His backers include GM's Board Chairman Lammot du Pont and President John Howard...