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...dumped on France. Certain branches of our industry will have to die . . . America will start meddling in our business. . . . Hundreds of thousands of tradesmen and shopkeepers will end miserably in bankruptcy. . . . It is not the Communist Party that wants to expropriate you-it is the Rothschilds, the Morgans, the Du Fonts. We, the Communists, have always respected private property and savings. . . . The Communist Party stands by the people of France in their fight against the American millionaires...
Thomas W. Phelps, a partner in Francis I. du Pont & Co. and one of Wall Street's leading exponents of the famed Dow theory, voiced the most prevalent view. Said Tom Phelps: "Many Americans, despite their dislike of Communism, lack enough faith in capitalism to risk their money on its ability to produce sustained prosperity. Many others . . . lack not faith but cash to buy stocks after paying record high taxes and living costs. [As a result] the stockmarket remains the only uninflated segment of our economy...
Chemical Change. At E. I. du Pont de Nemours, the president customarily resigns by the time he's 60. Last week, when Walter S. Carpenter Jr. turned the mark, he stepped aside for Crawford H. Greenewalt, 45, a chemist who had joined Du Pont in 1922, later married the daughter of Irénée du Pont. Carpenter became chairman of the board, succeeding 67-year-old Lammot du Pont, who remains a director...
...group from below the Mason-Dixon Line hung a Confederate flag from the A-42 window of Louis B. Du Pree '50, who hails from Greenville, North Carolina. According to Du Pree, the flag was almost unnoticed, for it is similar to the Deacon's House emblem...
...Several Yankee spectators" watched the ceremonies, said Du Pree, who said, "I would rather be in the sunshine" although he finds the snow "not too bad. I'm used...