Word: ponts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Henry Algernon du Pont, 88, onetime (1906-17) U. S. Senator from Delaware; cousin of present U. S. Senator Thomas Coleman du Pont (gunpowder, General Motors, mining, banking, street railways); in Winterthur, Del.; suddenly, of heart failure. He was great-grandson of French economist Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours (1739-1817), monarchist, who in 1799 emigrated to the U. S., where his son, Eleuthere Irenee, founded the since famed family powder factory and wealth. Henry Algernon du Pont, always interested in the Army, was as Lieutenant Colonel in the Civil War awarded Congressional Medal "for extraordinary gallantry"; became...
Both timely and dynamic was the pen of Pierre S. du Pont, chairman of the board of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., when he told of the benefits of the Quebec Liquor Commission in the December issue of Current History. Said he: "In Quebec a non-injurious quantity of alcohol may be purchased and drunk freely and openly with State guarantee of freedom from harmful adulterant. But in the United States the legal penalty for this harmless act is death. That death does not result from the many drinks taken is because our law is not enforced; legally...
...York Central; Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul and many another railroad, son of the late famed oil magnate Stephen V. Harkness. Mr. Harkness gave $7,500 and loaned $2,500. His sister-in-law, Edith Hale Harkness, recorded her opinion with a check for $1,000. Other contributors: Irenee du Pont of Wilmington, Del., $5,000; Pierre S. du Pont, $5,000; Arthur C. James, Manhattan and Newport financier and yachtsman, $2,500; Richard T. Crane, Chicago foundry potentate...
...economic reasons there was nothing personal in it--my mother dropped me out of the window onto the concrete pavement. I was quite unharmed, however, and just as my mother was about to repeat the experiment from a window one flight higher our old Indian servant stopped her, Pont," pleaded the faithful red-man. "Can't you see that the Great Spirit is reserving him for a grand mission...