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...Bull Durant legends abound. It is said that he persuaded G. M. directors to vote $100,000 for research on a refrigerator "just so they'd have more to worry about." It was he who, through John Jacob Raskob, then secretary to Pierre Samuel du Pont, interested the "Wilmington crowd" in G. M. He is one of the Federal Reserve's oldest, loudest, fiercest foes. He claims to have visited President Hoover a year ago last spring and warned him of impending crisis in the securities' markets. In 1909 he arranged to buy Ford Motor...
...Wilmington, Mass., Walter Melinsky hopped about, gesticulated with his fingers, tried to attract the attention of a crowd of bathers. When bystanders finally realized the cause of his .antics it was too late to save his drowned companion, like himself a deaf mute, for whom he was summoning...
Engaged. Lammot du Pont, 50, president of I. E. du Pont de Nemours & Co., board chairman of General Motors, father of seven children, and Mrs. Carolene Hynson Stollenwerck. widow of E. Carroll Stollenwerck of Baltimore; at Wilmington...
Last week, the Department filed suit under the Sherman Act against RCA in the U. S. District Court at Wilmington, Del. It charged a nationwide monopoly, asked that Radio, its affiliates and subsidiaries, be disbanded. This action followed closely on a reorganization of Radio under which 51.3% of its stock would be voted by General Electric and Westinghouse, denounced by Washington's Senator Clarence Cleveland Dill as a "$6,000,000,000 worldwide trust" (TIME, April...
duPont's Life Sirs: TIME, of March 17, under "The Press," states that Publisher John Charles Martin's life is insured for $6,000,000-the U. S. record. It is my understanding that Potent Pierre Samuel du Pont, of Wilmington, Del., is insured for $7,500,000. Am I right in this belief? GERALD H. OGAN...