Word: ponts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Delaware, Senator John ("Whispering Willie") Williams, the chicken-feed dealer who started the Internal Revenue Bureau scandal exposures, outran Lieut. Governor Alexis I. du Pont Bayard. Williams' standing as an exposer of corruption enabled him to overcome the formidable qualifications of Bayard, who comes from a direct line of five U.S. Senators (from his father to his great-great-great-grandfather), and whose mother is a du Pont...
Bounce Back. Although such bookkeeping and tax adjustments made comparison tricky, many of the gains reported last week were based on growing sales. For example, the giant Du Pont chemical empire in September had the best monthly sales in history ($146.7 million), and although its nine-months' earnings were off slightly ($3.26 v. $3.34), the third quarter showed a big rise, from 84? to $1.14. And General Motors was not only up for the quarter ($1.31 v. $1.01), but for the whole nine-month period...
...DELAWARE, Senator John J. Williams, investigator of the Internal Revenue Bureau (TIME, Oct. 13), has pulled slightly ahead of Lieut. Governor Alexis I. du Pont Bayard...
Last but far, far from least is Williams' opponent. Alexis Irénée du Pont Bayard, 34, a Democrat of aristocratic lineage, is a veteran with a fine combat record, a good speaker, handsome, suave, a Princeton graduate and now Delaware's hard-working lieutenant governor. Alexis Bayard's father, Thomas Bayard, was a U.S. Senator. So were his grandfather, Thomas Bayard Sr., his great-grandfather, James A. Bayard Jr., his great-uncle, Richard Henry Bayard, his great-great-grandfather, James A. Bayard Sr., and his great-great-great-grandfather, Richard Bassett (who was also...
What's more, the present Bayard's father married a Du Pont. In 1946, John Williams had the bulk of Du Pont support. This year the family is split, with some important elements backing cousin Alexis. Dopesters say that Ike is a bit ahead of Stevenson in Delaware but that Alexis is an aristocratic whisker in front of John Williams...