Word: wilmington
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ponts and other moneyed aristocrats of Wilmington, Del., were honored not long ago to entertain young Baron George Exter Friedrich von Krupp, heir apparent to the vast Krupp works at Essen. The Baron was no mustachioed warlord but, on the contrary, save for his short-clipped blond hair and "der's" for "the's," differed little in mien from a U. S. college undergraduate. He conversed readily, fluently; talked of sport, history, politics; reminisced modestly of his grandfather; spoke of his mother, famed and able Bertha Krupp, with restrained admiration and affection. Then he would sigh...
Engaged. Margaret Lois Fiske, daughter of Haley Fiske, President of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.; to Martin Edwin Walker 3rd, of Wilmington...
Engineer Howard R. Armstrong is a man of vision, but hardly a visionary. He has flown in airplanes for over 20 years. He has ascended professionally to the head of the mechanical experimental division of the vast E. I. du Pont de Nemours Co. of Wilmington Del. When he talked last week of a plan that has been in his head for 20 years, he got a respectful hearing from Army and Navy officials, the press and his fellow scientists...
...former Alicia du Pont, daughter of Alfred I. du Pont (potent Wilmington, Del. financier) is now engaged in divorcing herself from one Harold Glendenning, Rhodes scholar, son of a mail carrier (TIME, June 7). The former Margarette du Pont, daughter of Irenée du Pont (onetime President of E.. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.-explosives, industrial chemicals) is now married to one C. H. Greenwalt, Philadelphia chemist. (TIME, June...
...everyone knows, numerous members of the rapidly prolific and fabulously wealthy du Pont clan dwell together in a residential park near Wilmington, Del. They are distinguished as a family by a lack of ostentation, a generous solicitude for their retainers' welfare, and an astute dominance in national business (for example, General Motors) and Delaware politics...