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...turn the heat on local Republican committeemen to keep the G.O.P. "from becoming more liberal; meaning more radical." Conspicuous at the banquet board as he passed the olives was the handsome, flowing stock of Mohawk Carpet Mills Chairman George W. McNeir (see cut). Other business Congressmen were du Pont's President Lammot du Pont; Atwater Kent's A. At water Kent; W. A. Sheaffer Pen's W. A. Sheaffer; Kohler Co.'s Walter J. Kohler; Publisher Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden; Adman Bruce Barton; Camelman S. Clay Williams; Kodakman William G. Stuber; Soapman Richard R. Deupree: Woolman...
...development of automobile roller bearings which supplanted billiard balls, the small, struggling Hyatt became large & rich. In 1916 Hyatt was taken over by William Crapo Durant, whose General Motors dream included motorcar accessories as well as motorcars. In 1920 Mr. Durant was out of General Motors, the du Ponts were in, and Mr. Sloan was operating vice president. In 1923 he succeeded Pierre du Pont as Motors' president...
...assaults upon the Chamber of Deputies and various Ministries," flatly declared L'Oeuvre. "In the early hours of the uprising a certain number of summary executions are foreseen. On the black list are most radical former Ministers. The manner of execution will be to throw victims from the Pont de la Concorde into the Seine." On the fateful day a cold Paris drizzle was enough to send all dissident elements into their favorite cafes, blowing on their fingers and puffing with indignation. At the last minute the so-called "Popular Front" of Radical Socialists, Socialists and Communists opposing...
...large academic question is whether universities should thus capitalize their researchers' discoveries. Last fortnight University of Pennsylvania revealed that it had lost its cancer research department because trustees refused a request of Irénée du Pont, who had supported the department since its founding, that discoveries be patented, profits used to reward discoverers and finance further research...
...compared to a top of about $6,000,000 in 1929. The regular $3 dividend has been augmented by two extras, bringing dividend payments thus far this year up to $5.50. Technically a "chemical company," Air Reduction should not be confused with Allied Chemical, E. I. du Pont de Nemours, or any other corporation with a general line of chemical products. The company specializes in two major products -acetylene and oxygen. A combination of acetylene and oxygen, ignited, burns at a temperature of 6,400° F.-the hottest flame that man has yet produced. The oxygen-acetylene flame, directed...