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Engaged. Henry Belin du Pont, assistant treasurer of E. I. du Pont de Nemours Co. (celluloid, gunpowder, paints, rubber goods), of Wilmington, Del.; to Miss Margaret Wilson Lewis, of San Antonio, Texas...
Elected. George Blow Elliott, 55, of Wilmington, N. C., vice president and general counsel of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Co., to be president of the line. Mr. Elliott, whose father was president of the same railroad (1900-1902) succeeds the late John R. Kenly...
Died. John Reese Kenly, 81, president of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Co.; in Wilmington...
...Raskob, chairman of the finance committee of the General Motors Corp., vice-president of E. I. du Pont de Nemours Co., onetime $1,000 a year secretary to Pierre S. du Pont, gave $500,000 toward a fund of $1,500,000 for advancing the Catholic Church in Wilmington, Del. If other Catholics contribute a like amount, John J. Raskob will duplicate his first gift and complete the fund. These are not John J. Raskob's first gratuities to the Roman Catholic Church. Recently, Pope Pius XI made him private chamberlain in the papal menage...
Josiah Marvel of the Wilmington, Delaware, Bar, chairman of the General Council of the American Bar Association and Ex-President of that organization, will speak in Langdell Center under the auspices of the Law School Society of the Phillips Brooks House Association on February 15 at 8 o'clock...