Word: warsh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Ralph Nader released The Company State (1971), a report attacking Du Pont influence in Delaware, the papers gave the document heavy play. More recently, Reporter David Warsh, 28, was sent to Washington to cover Securities and Exchange Commission hearings on the proposed merger between Du Pont and Christiana Securities, the holding company through which the family owns the papers. Warsh's coverage was so acerbic that, as one Du Pont man bitterly put it, the reporter became an instant "folk hero...