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...member of Du Pont's finance committee-who joined him to build the business and to expand it into the fields of peace. Shortly before World War I, E. I. du Pont de Nemours, like Baron, was found in violation of the antitrust laws and split into three separate companies. The parallels go deeper. The Barons is largely the story of Stuart. His divorce, which rocked Susquehanna society, his long and tragic attempt to marry his third cousin, Philippa, his law suit and feud with his family over disposal of Raoul's 40,000 shares of Baron common...
House Divided. The family's attitude to the problem drinker is often an obstacle to his treatment, Anderson points out: "By the time the compulsive drinker has come to such a pass that he wants to seek treatment, the family is usually split into two embittered camps: the sympathetic who don't have to nurse poor Bill and believe that if he had more understanding at home and his wife would stop nagging, he'd be all right; and the wife's defenders, who see what a wreck he is making...
After weeks of indecisive pawing & snorting, Wall Street's bull market this week jumped over the fence. Prodded by fat earnings, generous dividends and a spate of stock splits (General Motors, Philco, Container Corp. and a rumored split by Chrysler), stocks went bouncing up in the opening session this week. The Dow-Jones industrial average reached 228.94, thus breaking through the previous bull market high of last June and climbing to the highest point since September 1930.* Railroad stocks, which had been pacing recent market advances, also rose; their Dow-Jones index was the highest since August...
Setting up the Crimson defense again from the goal will be Dick Craven, who split last week's net-minding duties with Don Harshman. Sophomores Charlie Ufford and Ben Florin will again form the fullback line, having both turned in excellent jobs against Tufts last week...
...trustees, Dudley H. Dorr '07 and Reginald Hober Smith '10, split the money into 100 equal shares, and allocated three of these to the Law School and two to the Divinity School...