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...particular, should be "a most unattractive old thing, tra la, with a caricature of a face." For this role last week the brothers Lee & Jake Shubert signed up oldtime Contralto Ernestine Schumann-Heink, 70. With a company of seasoned Savoyards, the Shuberts' Mikado opens Oct. 16 in Wilmington, Del., will play in Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia and other Eastern cities...
...California, Michigan, Illinois. Connecticut, New York and Delaware notified the President that they were prepared to finance their own relief this winter. To 2,500 local committees Generalissimo Gifford sent out as "model plans" the relief programs adopted by Rochester, Chicago, Wilmington, Indianapolis and Milwaukee. The President announced that 39,000 men were now employed on Federal building (7/10 of 1% of all jobless), that by Jan. 1 he hoped 100,000 would be thus engaged (1 6/10 % of all jobless). ¶ In California has circulated a report that President Hoover is a heavy stockholder in South American oil companies...
...young company built by a young man. On March 4, 1929, while bands and flags and soldiers led Herbert Hoover to his oath of office, young George Lewis Ohrstrom, 35 then, was interested in a less publicized matter. On that historic day he was occupied with incorporation details at Wilmington, Del. Birthday of Hoover Prosperity, it was also birthday...
Married. Eleanor, daughter of Richard Farnsworth Hoyt, board chairman of Curtiss-Wright Corp.; and Alexis Felix du Pont Jr. of Wilmington, heir to $60.000,000 (estimated); at Marion, Mass...
...Pont & associates. Alfred, not one of the associates, declared war. There followed a cousinly battle of giants, du Pont against du Pont for great E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. The war had banking ramifications, Alfred obtaining control of Delaware Trust Co. and with it great power in Wilmington. It had its political aspects, Alfred fighting the late Colonel Henry Algernon du Pont in State politics and Senator Thomas Coleman du Pont fighting Alfred. It had its ramifications in the company, where Alfred, William and Francis du Pont were ousted from executive positions by a 55% vote of stock...