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...Good old Crow" was the shout that went up from many sections when the crow-killing contest held by the du Pont powder company was announced (TiME, March...
...week in the deep seas and caught, in one word, nothing. The most promising nibble was testimony of a minor official in the Department of Justice to the effect that the Department had failed to recover between $5,000,000 and $20,000,000 from a subsidiary Du Pont (powder) company. This big fish got off the line before it was hooked. The fishing proceeded...
...presidential nominations. "I think it is very foolish trying to be an optimist in the stock market at the present time," he added. The effect of his pronouncement on the stock prices was electrical. In a single day, Fisher Body fell 13 points, General Electric 8⅛, Du Pont 7½, Baldwin 6, American Can 5, National Lead 8, Houston Oil 7½, U. S. Steel 3⅛, Studebaker 3¼, the entire list with hardly an exception declined...
...Coleman is great grandson of Pierre du Pont de Nemours, French economist-statesman, friend of Thomas Jefferson. Pierre came to America and began manufacturing gunpowder in Delaware during the French Revolution. T. Coleman was born in Louisville in 1863, graduated from Urbana University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he was stroke of the crew, captain of the football and baseball teams, "ran the 100 in ten seconds" (despite his 6 ft. 4 in. and 210 Ibs.), shot, swam, boxed, wrestled. He started work with pick and shovel in a coal mine, being an active member of the miners...
...aims of Mr. Du Pont and Dean Collie have echoes abroad. A Clarence Graff Fellowship has been founded at Oxford "to foster a better understanding in Great Britain of the social conditions and currents of opinion in the United States and to establish friendly contacts...