Word: wilmington
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clock every Sunday afternoon On the first and third Sundays of the month the conservatories, gardens and greenhouses, and organ concert are open to the public at an admission fee of 50?, receipts being divided between five hospitals, two in Chester County, Pa., and three in Wilmington, Delaware. (The conservatories and gardens are open free of charge every week day.) The organ was designed by Mr. Firmin Swinnen, noted concert organist, who plans and executes the weekly concerts at Longwood...
PIERRE S. DUPONT Wilmington...
...themselves involved in anti-trust proceedings. Attorney General William De Witt Mitchell filed suit against Warner Brothers and William Fox and announced a general investigation of the pooled patents held by Radio Corp. of America. This announcement closely followed a ruling in which the U. S. District Court in Wilmington, Delaware, declared that Radio Corp. was following monopolistic practices in its licensing policy...
...into the First National, and the merger in Worcester of three Massachusetts banks, but I believe you have thus far failed to note the recent merger of a number of North Carolina banks, a dozen or more, into the North Carolina Bank & Trust Co. with headquarters in Greensboro, Raleigh, Wilmington, High Point, Salisbury, Rocky Mount, Burlington. Former Governor Angus MacLean of North Carolina, a prime mover in the merger, is chairman of the board...
...Leach, denouncer of whippings which he has to administer, has developed at New Castle the unique plan of his predecessor Warden Plummer. Over the 600 convicts stand only three guards. The inmates are given prison keys, allowed to work unguarded outside the prison walls, permitted to drive trucks to Wilmington unaccompanied. Escapes are rare. The convicts themselves deliver discipline, ostracize rule-breakers. The inmates are given piecework, earn money for cigarets. clothes, sweets. During the day they wear blue denim work clothes, in the evening they dress like citizens for dinner...