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...Grayson Mallet-Prevost Murphy, Manhattan Republican, financier (New York Transportation Co., Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.), and Pierre Samuel du Pont, Delaware Republican, industrialist (chairman of General Motors Co.). Reason: Prohibition...
...Amendment, of which the President is Major Henry Hastings Curran of Manhattan; of which Charles H. Sabin of Manhattan, board chairman of the Guaranty Trust Co., last week, became treasurer. The A.A. P. A. acquired six new directors last week: Financier Henry Morrell Atkinson of Atlanta, Industrialist Lammot du Pont of Wilmington, Clarence H. Geist of Philadelphia (public utilities), Banker David M. Goodrich of Manhattan, Lawyer Gerald Hughes of Denver, Financier Samuel Mather of Cleveland...
Manufacturer Irenée du Pont of Delaware said last week: "I have always voted the straight Republican ticket, and I am still hoping that something may yet happen between now and the Presidential election which will allow me to vote that ticket again, conscientiously, this year. But then, I always have been of an optimistic disposition." Mr. du Font's worries -Prohibition, corruption, lawbreaking...
Raskob. Potent in the Smith background, financially, psychologically, is John Jacob Raskob, vice president of the E. I. du Pont de Nemours Co., chairman of the finance committee of the General Motors Corp., "biggest U. S. business man." Mr. Raskob was one of Mrs. Smith's escort home from Houston. Last week Mr. Raskob's son, William F. Raskob II, was killed in a motor smash. Nominee Smith made straight for Centerville, Md., and attended the funeral at the Mother of Sorrows Catholic Church. Beside Nominee Smith walked Mr. & Mrs. Pierre du Pont...
Henry Belin du Pont, rich & ardent young assistant treasurer of the E. I. du Pont de Nemours Co. at Wilmington, Del., in April became engaged to Margaret Wilson Lewis at San Antonio, Texas. Separating them are 1,600 air miles. So last week Mr. du Pont had delivered to him a $12,000 Bellanca plane, wherewith to fly to his sweetheart each weekend...