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...Fourth son, William, hurried up from Wilmington, Del. Daughter Marion Oser of Danbury, Conn. remained there awaiting developments...
...game of golf. In Manhattan the Mills home is just off Fifth Avenue on 6gth Street. There is also a Newport villa. Two chauffeurs are kept busy with four cars, one of them a handsome Isotta Fraschini. Last spring at the Pusey & Jones shipyards in Wilmington, Mrs. Mills christened her husband's new 160-ft. yacht Avalon...
...Wilmington, Del. Mayor Frank C. Parks went to court and paid a fine of $1 & costs for having parked his car too long in front of City Hall while he was being inducted into office...
...anonymous donor gave $50,000, commissioned a sculptor to erect a statue of Pierre Samuel du Pont, rich charitarian in Wilmington, Del., his home town. When Charitarian du Pont learned of the project, he requested the sculptor to return his photographs, said that he was "unalterably opposed...
...patents dominated the radio manufacturing field, compelled rival firms making sets under a patent-license-and-royalty system to install only RCA vacuum tubes in their products. So complete was its grip on the industry that five independent radio manufacturers, backed by RPA, went into the Federal court at Wilmington, Del. and asked Judge Hugh Martin Morris to pass on the legality of RCA's tube contract with competitors. Judge Morris ruled that the contract was a violation of the Clayton Anti-Trust Law as it tended to create a monopoly. RCA appealed to the U. S. Supreme Court which...