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...known his Russians for nearly two generations. In 1896 he was Minister of Interior and as such responsible for the safety in France of newly-crowned Tsar Nicholas II who came to throw a magnificent bridge across the Seine in memory of his father Tsar Alexander III. Today le Pont Alexandre-Trois is still the most magnificent in Paris and across it in his long-snouted Renault limousine M. Barthou has ridden in animated conversation with Comrade Maxim Maximovitch Litvinoff, the roly-poly one time traveling salesman who is now Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the Union of Soviet Socialist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE: Old Diplomacy | 9/24/1934 | See Source »

Beneath that ran a three-column defense of du Pont operations. Its source was plainly labeled: "A prepared statement to stockholders and employes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Wilmington Tight-rope | 9/24/1934 | See Source »

Most potent force in Delaware is the House of du Pont. Seat of the du Ponts is Wilmington, where they own the only daily newspapers in town. Lately the du Ponts' Morning News and Journal-Every Evening (circ. 55,000) needed an executive editor. Du Pont headquarters got in touch with the person who knows most about available editors-Editor Marlen Pew of Editor & Publisher. Editor Pew had just the man, his old friend William Latta Mapel, a big, brawny, bespectacled fellow ten years out of University of Missouri School of Journalism. For five years "Bill" Mapel had been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Wilmington Tight-rope | 9/24/1934 | See Source »

...PONT PREFERS PEACE TO WAR, SAYS PRESIDENT...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Wilmington Tight-rope | 9/24/1934 | See Source »

...columns of AP copy followed, included the testimony of Pierre du Pont: "If the war had ended in 1916 we might have been in a bad position." In that evening's edition the Journal carried more than three and a half columns on the hearing, and a front page picture of the four du Ponts sitting in the committee room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Wilmington Tight-rope | 9/24/1934 | See Source »

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