Word: ponts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What might be portended by a secret meeting, in Washington, D. C., of the following: James Wolcott Wadsworth, onetime (1915-27) U. S. Senator from New York; Edward Stephen Harkness, Manhattan philanthropist, and Charles Hamilton Sabin, Manhattan banker; Sidney Trowbridge Miller, Detroit lawyer-philanthropist; Pierre Samuel du Pont, Delaware industrialist-educator; Benedict Crowell, Cleveland engineer; Senators Walter Evens Edge of New Jersey and William Cabell Bruce of Maryland; Representative John Charles Linthicum of Maryland; and many another...
...announced, almost as casually, that the corporation would pay to owners of their 17,400,000 shares (E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. own 25%) $65,250,000. In this amount, largest ever disbursed to shareholders at one time by any industrial concern, was a bonus of $2.50 for each share besides the regular quarterly dividend...
...means all the 96 U. S. Senators subscribe to TIME. In fact, only 16 do. They are Senators: L. C. Phipps (Colorado), Hiram Bingham (Connecticut), Thomas F. Bayard (Delaware), T. Coleman du Pont (Delaware), Daniel F. Steck (Iowa), Arthur Capper (Kansas), Fred M. Sackett (Kentucky), William Cabell Bruce (Maryland), Harry B. Hawes (Missouri), Henry W. Keyes (New Hampshire), Walter E. Edge (New Jersey), Royal S. Copeland (New York), David A. Reed (Pennsylvania, Jesse H. Metcalf (Rhode Island), Peter Norbeck (South Dakota), Morris Sheppard (Texas...
Senator du Font's throat was diseased from a "throat ulcer." For this he consulted Dr. John E. Mackenty, senior surgeon at the Manhattan hospital, who is famed for his technique in operations on cancer of the throat. Dr. Mackenty excised Senator du Pont's vocal cords, larynx and part of his tongue and windpipe. So that the senator could breathe, Dr. Mackenty cut a hole in the front wall of his neck and to it fastened the upper rim of his windpipe...
...Pont. "I want to fly as long as I can and die like a gentleman." So said Alexis Felix du Pont, son of the vice president of the du Pont de Nemours & Co., who entrained last week for San Antonio, Tex., to begin service in the army air service as a cadet...