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...delegates were Thomas Nelson Perkins (Boston & Maine), Redfield Proctor (Vermont Marble), Alfred P. Sloan Jr. (General Motors), Cornelius Francis Kelley (Anaconda Copper), Myron C. Taylor (U. S. Steel). William Hartman Woodin (American Car & Foundry), William Wallace Atterbury (Pennsylvania R. R.), Arthur Colbraith Dorrance (Campbell Soup), Irénée du Pont (explosives), George Horace Lorimer (Satevepost), Wilfred Washington Fry (N. W. Ayer & Son), J. Howard Pew (Sun Oil), Howard Heinz (pickles), William Cooper Procter (Ivory soap), George Mathew Verity (American Rolling Mill), Harvey S. Firestone Jr. (tires), Paul Weeks Litchfield (Goodyear), James Dinsmore Tew (Goodrich), Charles A. Cannon (towels), Samuel Clay...
Because Prohibition is a matter of politics and politics is a matter of propaganda, horsey, fun-loving Jouett Shouse, ablest of political propagandists, was last week named president of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment. His selection was announced by rich, precise Pierre Samuel du Pont, chairman of A. A. P. A.'s executive committee. Major Henry Hastings Curran, the Association's president for the past five years, was made vice chairman of the board...
...party, to state clearly and plainly where he stands on this all-important question-whether for or against the repeal of the 18th Amendment." Elsewhere on the Wet front, the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment (600,000 members), oldest Wet unit, which has the support of Pierre du Pont, was biding its time, waiting for the Hoover acceptance speech before plumping for either or neither party. Book. More thoughtfully statistical than the Sabin sisterhood, the Crusaders are currently circulating a book called The New Crusade, presented "to the thinking peoples of the United States that they may intelligently understand...
...organizations met in Manhattan's Empire State Building, organized themselves into a United Repeal Council, mightiest Wet body yet to be washed up by the anti-Prohibition groundswell. Chosen chairman of the Council, which claims to represent a membership of 2,500,000 citizens, was Pierre Samuel du Pont. The Council decided to hold a mass meeting in Chicago on the eve of the Republican National Convention, after which it will go about trying to get the 18th Amendment out of the Constitution just as Prohibitionists went about putting it in-by the slow process of electing public officials...
...main raw material and whose purchases of it from China are a large part of the $15,000,000 worth imported by the U. S., grew interested. In 1924 they formed American Tung Oil Corp. to start a 225-acre grove. Sherwin-Williams, Valspar, du Pont, Devoe & Raynolds, Pratt & Lambert and Benjamin Moore & Co. were among the experimenters. Then Benjamin Moore started a 1,900-acre grove of its own, set up an oil-extraction mill in Gainesville, 77 mi. southwest of Jacksonville...