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...where his son, Eleuthere Irenee, founded the since famed family powder factory and wealth. Henry Algernon du Pont, always interested in the Army, was as Lieutenant Colonel in the Civil War awarded Congressional Medal "for extraordinary gallantry"; became (1877) President of Wilmington and Northern Railway; withdrew 20 years later from business to politics and farming...
...cause seems lost. He is Peter Nicholaievich, Baron Wrangel, the last hope of the "White" Tsarist Russian emigrés. In 1920 the victories of his "White Knights" over portions of the "Red Army" gave hope that the Bolshevist tide might be dammed. Then France and Britain withdrew their support from General Wrangel, he was driven even from Sevastopol, fled. Until last week his refuge was Belgrade, Jugoslavia...
Financial Partners John Pierpont Morgan and Charles Steele withdrew from the directorate of the International Mercantile Marine Co. last April to avoid embarrassing the sale of its White Star Line. Their London firm, Morgan, Grenfell & Co., was trying to sell the fleet to British shippers. That deal was abandoned. Therefore, last week, Mr. Morgan and Mr. Steele resumed their I. M. M. directorships, and the White Star Line will continue for the immediate present U. S. owned but British operated...
...gone to raw Chicago and had been hired to work for the general mercantile firm of Cooley, Farwell & Co., which was doing a big wholesale business with the towns of the prairies. This was in 1856. Marshall Field became a partner. The firm became Field, Palmer & Leiter. Potter Palmer withdrew and the name was changed to Field, Leiter & Co. Marshall Field became a rich man and became so through two business principles most unusual in the U. S. before the Civil War. He backed up every item of goods he sold with a warranty of its soundness and value...
When Dr. Seward. dry Republican candidate for the governorship in New York, withdrew from the race, the most populous state of the union was abandoned to most, politicians. His resignation throws a wine-colored light not only on the election but, more important, on the coming prohibition referendum, the result of which the Republican candidates are pledged to uphold...