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Constructive T. Coleman Du Pont has set himself to the job of securing world peace by a slow-sure method: Education. His aim is the internationalization of education...
...interchange of scholastic credits, ex-Senator Du Font's committee would then increase the opportunities for interchange of students. Money necessary to these plans will be supplied by American financiers if the preliminary work produces satisfactory results. A preliminary committee is headed by Frank A. Vanderlip. Senator Du Pont is Vice Chairman and Felix M. Warburg Treasurer. Members include Marcus M. Marks, F. B. Robinson, Sydney Blumenthal, Dr. Walter Hullihen, President of the University of Delaware...
...great a proposal is characteristic of Coleman Du Pont, who built a $30,000,000 highway and gave it to his State; who built the Equitable Building, Manhattan, who organized the Du Pont de Nemours manufacturing interests, made them the greatest of their kind, then resigned. His present objective may not be reached during his lifetime...
Ernest du Pont, gunpowder manufacturer : " Motoring in the dead of night on the Baltimore Pike near Media, Pa., I was suddenly confronted by a man in the road flourishing a pistol. He was dressed as a State policeman, but, suspecting treachery, I put on speed. The man jumped aside, entered a waiting car with his accomplice and gave me hot chase. They fired at me, hitting my tonneau twice. They caught up and tried to crowd me off the road. When I slowed down one bandit boarded my car, gun in hand. I flung him from the running board...
...Pont Fellowship to Lawrence P. Hall 3G., of Montclair, N. J., instructor in chemistry at Harvard (chemistry...