Word: ponts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then came another jolt for slippery Will H. Hays. In the mass of testimony, the Committee came upon a memorandum bearing minute pencil notations. A microscope revealed four names: "Weeks," "Andy," du Pont," "Butler." Two of these names the Committee could understand. In his testimony Mr. Hays had mentioned sending $25,000 of Sinclair's Liberty Bonds to the late John W. Weeks, at that time Secretary of War. Another $75,000 had gone to U. S. Senator Thomas Coleman du Pont, to meet a note due in Manhattan. Mr. Hays had not mentioned "Andy" or "Butler...
...them what they want," Stockholder L. A. Mathey lectured the Childs Co.'s management at last week's annual meeting. Applause from stockholders was in all the greater contrast to the silence of the management. President and General Manager William Childs was absent. Neither were the du Pont interests (large stockholders) represented at the meeting. Vice President S. Willard Smith, facing the barrage of stockholders' criticism alone, in the absence of all the Childs-William, Luther, E. Ellsworth, William S., all directors-admitted that January, 1928, earnings were one-half of those of January, 1927. Stockholder Mathey...
...Edward Rice, Chairman, and Dorothy Rodgers; J. C. Carter and Marion Haefell; A. G. Churchill and Georgina Denton; W. L. Denton and Alfreida Carter; D. L. Garrison and Deo de Pont; Reed Harwood and Catherine Hedge...
John J. Raskob, chairman of the finance committee of the General Motors Corp., vice-president of E. I. du Pont de Nemours Co., onetime $1,000 a year secretary to Pierre S. du Pont, gave $500,000 toward a fund of $1,500,000 for advancing the Catholic Church in Wilmington, Del. If other Catholics contribute a like amount, John J. Raskob will duplicate his first gift and complete the fund. These are not John J. Raskob's first gratuities to the Roman Catholic Church. Recently, Pope Pius XI made him private chamberlain in the papal menage...
...Pont de Nemours & Co. (duPont rayon, chemicals, explosives, toilet-ware, Fabrikoid, etc., etc.)?$41,113,968. Previous year...