Word: wilmington
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
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...
...Mapel set to work for the du Ponts six weeks ago he was promised absolute editorial authority. One of the officers of the publishing company even put it in writing. Last week Editor Mapel met the first test of his independence when the biggest kind of local story for Wilmington broke into his lap. It concerned, of all people, Bill Mapel's bosses, the du Ponts, who were appearing before the Senate committee investigating the munitions industry...
...Ethel du Pont, daughter of Sportsman-Horticulturist Eugene du Pont, director of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. Fumed the du Fonts: "There is absolutely nothing to the report." That evening the President's third son was a house guest at Miss du Pont's Wilmington debut...
...Chicago, bondholders of Samuel Insull's Middle West Utilities petitioned for reorganization in bankruptcy rather than in equity. In St. Louis bondholders in Laclede Gas and St. Louis Public Service marched up to the judge, demanding a new corporate deal. In Wilmington three prime examples of helter-skelter public utility holding companies were dusted off -Central West Public Service, Consolidated Gas Utilities. National Public Utilities. And from coast to coast countless other corporations or their long suffering security holders rushed for shelter under the wide roof of Section 77th...
...NIRA. After last week's decision these same union leaders were able to say "I-told-you-so" to the President. A hearing for a permanent injunction against Weirton Steel with witnesses on the stand for both sides cannot now be obtained until the autumn term of the Wilmington court. Even then any decision will be appealed next winter to the U. S. Supreme Court. And before that august tribunal can make up its collective mind, it is likely that June 16, 1935 will have come and gone and NRA expired...