The du Ponts came calling on America on New Year’s Day of 1800, and their holiday traditions have entertained family members, neighbors, employees and visitors ever since. Hundreds of thousands of ...

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Most potent force in Delaware is the House of du Pont. Seat of the du Ponts is Wilmington, where they own the only daily newspapers in town. Lately the du Ponts’ Morning News and Journal-Every Evening ...

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As political cartoonist for Julius David Stern’s rampantly pro-New Deal Philadelphia Record, spectacled Gerald Aloysius (“Jerry”) Doyle flays the Big Interests daily for the edification of some ...

Among the moneyed Du Ponts, who preferred the privacy of their elegant homes and the offices and plants of the chemical company that bore their name, Pierre S. “Pete” du Pont IV was a bit of a rebel.

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Among the moneyed du Ponts, who preferred the privacy of their elegant homes and the offices and plants of the chemical company that bore their name, Pierre S. “Pete” du Pont ...

A heir to the du Pont family fortune and the richest U.S. man to stand trial for murder, John du Pont tried to buy justice.

Wealth in America has concentrated — and dramatically so — over the past four decades. Since 1980, note wealth researchers Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman, the top 0.1 percent share of the nation’s ...

WILMINGTON, Del.— Among the moneyed du Ponts, who preferred the privacy of their elegant homes and the offices and plants of the chemical company that bore their name, Pierre S. “Pete” du Pont IV was ...

WILMINGTON, Del. — Among the moneyed du Ponts, who preferred the privacy of their elegant homes and the offices and plants of the chemical company that bore their name, Pierre S. "Pete" du Pont IV was ...