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...Raised at a raucous Bethlehem Steel stockholders' meeting in Wilmington, Del. was the perennial question of whether 75-year-old Chairman Charles Michael Schwab is still worth his $200,000 salary. The old steelmaster was on hand to give the meeting his blessing with an optimistic appreciation of the "complete cooperation and understanding between management and stockholders." Hardly had he finished before that ubiquitous meeting-goer, Lewis D. Gilbert ("U. S. Minority Stockholder No. 1"), rose to propose that Mr. Schwab be kicked upstairs into an "honorary chairmanship" with a $25,000 annual pension. Mr. Schwab, said Stockholder Gilbert...
...Tisdale, a big, florid Alabaman of 45, is director of Du Font's new anti-pest laboratory which was formally opened last week in the suburbs of Wilmington, and of which the formal name is Pest Control Research Section, Grasselli Chemicals Department, E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. A handful of newshawks assembled in the gleaming Nemours building, lunched with Lammot du Pont, who shook each one's hand, spent the afternoon in the battleship-grey laboratory, wound up at the Hotel du Pont...
...sweep toward power continued to surge and boil across the land last week. Keeping in the van. rank & file motor workers set the week's keynote, showing by a fresh wave of sit-downs that they were getting out of their leaders' hands (see p. 20). In Wilmington, Del., a short-lived general strike called in support of striking truck drivers sent flying squads of unionists roving the city's streets, tossing bricks through windows of trolleys, busses, stores. In Albert Lea, Minn., retaliating for the smashing of picket lines and a tear-gas attack on their...
...time one owner had won both of Santa Anita's major races. In addition, just a week before the Santa Anita Handicap, Rosemont had won the San Antonio Handicap (on the Santa Anita track), for which his reward was $6,825. Owner du Pont, 42, is President of Wilmington Trust Co., one of the backers of Wilmington's new $1,500,000 Delaware Park race track which will open next June. His sister, Mariona du Pont Somerville Scott, is married to Cinemactor Randolph Scott. She watched five-year-old Rosemont climax the most profitable week...
...five weeks in Florida recuperating from sinus infection which invalided him last November, returned to the White House cured, bringing his fiancée Ethel du Pont. No sooner had they arrived than Fiancée Ethel came down with acute appendicitis. The Roosevelts, after telephoning her family in Wilmington, called a naval ambulance, shot her into Emergency Hospital a block from the White House where she was successfully operated on by Commander Morton Willcutts...