Word: pontes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...political cartoonist for Julius David Stern's rampantly pro-New Deal Philadelphia Record, spectacled Gerald Aloysius ("Jerry") Doyle flays the Big Interests daily for the edification of some 328,222 readers. Last week one Doyle drawing particularly tickled none other than Eugene (Liberty League) du Pont, millionaire munitions manufacturer of nearby Wilmington, Del., whose daughter Ethel is to marry Franklin Roosevelt Jr. in June. The cartoon that delighted Mr. du Pont showed young Roosevelt as Romeo beneath a balcony festooned with elephant-cupids on which a "Juliet du Pont" (see cut) declaimed: "Tis but thy name that...
...therefore the only sensible thing to do was secede from the Union." To establish the bona fides of the new nation, a list of its public officials was appended: President, Alf M. Landon; Vice President, Frank Knox; Secretary of State, Alfred E. Smith; Secretary of the Treasury, du Pont and du Pont; Attorney General, John W. Davis; Secretary of the Interior, Jim Reed; Postmaster General, John D. M. Hamilton; Secretary of Commerce, Governor E. W. Marland; Ambassador to Bolivia, former Governor "Alfalfa Bill" Murray; Ambassador to Russia, William Allen White. To various local dignitaries went the posts of Ambassador...
Engaged. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., 22, third son of the 32nd U. S. President, Harvard senior; and Ethel du Pont, 20, eldest daughter of retired Powdermaker Eugene du Pont, niece of Powdermakers Lammot, Pierre Samuel and Irenée du Pont; at Owls Nest, Greenville, Del., where Franklin Jr. was a week-end guest. Miss du Pont announced that their June wedding would not be at the White House...
...Pont de Nemours showed a $23,875,048 profit compared to $17,704,182 in the third quarter of 1935. From du Font's investment in General Motors came more than one-half this net. Nine-month earnings were $62,567,019 against $40,154,667 last year...
...blast a reservoir on his farm at Stanfordville, N. Y., Dr. Edgar Ernst needed 50 Ib. of dynamite, ordered it sent by freight from the du Pont factory in Wilmington, Del. Last week, in a special car pulled by a special engine. Dr. Ernst's dynamite arrived. Confronted with the difficulty of transporting a package no bigger than a soap box which was nonetheless capable of blowing up a complete train, du Pont had hired a whole boxcar, nailed the crate to the floor in the middle, sealed the doors, plastered the outside with placards screaming EXPLOSIVES...