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| pierre s du pont v: Pierre S. Du Pont and the Making of the Modern Corporation Alfred Dupont Chandler, Stephen Salsbury, 2000 |
| pierre s du pont v: Last Call Daniel Okrent, 2010-05-11 A brilliant, authoritative, and fascinating history of America’s most puzzling era, the years 1920 to 1933, when the U.S. Constitution was amended to restrict one of America’s favorite pastimes: drinking alcoholic beverages. From its start, America has been awash in drink. The sailing vessel that brought John Winthrop to the shores of the New World in 1630 carried more beer than water. By the 1820s, liquor flowed so plentifully it was cheaper than tea. That Americans would ever agree to relinquish their booze was as improbable as it was astonishing. Yet we did, and Last Call is Daniel Okrent’s dazzling explanation of why we did it, what life under Prohibition was like, and how such an unprecedented degree of government interference in the private lives of Americans changed the country forever. Writing with both wit and historical acuity, Okrent reveals how Prohibition marked a confluence of diverse forces: the growing political power of the women’s suffrage movement, which allied itself with the antiliquor campaign; the fear of small-town, native-stock Protestants that they were losing control of their country to the immigrants of the large cities; the anti-German sentiment stoked by World War I; and a variety of other unlikely factors, ranging from the rise of the automobile to the advent of the income tax. Through it all, Americans kept drinking, going to remarkably creative lengths to smuggle, sell, conceal, and convivially (and sometimes fatally) imbibe their favorite intoxicants. Last Call is peopled with vivid characters of an astonishing variety: Susan B. Anthony and Billy Sunday, William Jennings Bryan and bootlegger Sam Bronfman, Pierre S. du Pont and H. L. Mencken, Meyer Lansky and the incredible—if long-forgotten—federal official Mabel Walker Willebrandt, who throughout the twenties was the most powerful woman in the country. (Perhaps most surprising of all is Okrent’s account of Joseph P. Kennedy’s legendary, and long-misunderstood, role in the liquor business.) It’s a book rich with stories from nearly all parts of the country. Okrent’s narrative runs through smoky Manhattan speakeasies, where relations between the sexes were changed forever; California vineyards busily producing “sacramental” wine; New England fishing communities that gave up fishing for the more lucrative rum-running business; and in Washington, the halls of Congress itself, where politicians who had voted for Prohibition drank openly and without apology. Last Call is capacious, meticulous, and thrillingly told. It stands as the most complete history of Prohibition ever written and confirms Daniel Okrent’s rank as a major American writer. |
| pierre s du pont v: Catalogue of the Public Documents of the [the Fifty-third] Congress [to the 76th Congress] and of All Departments of the Government of the United States United States. Superintendent of Documents, 1896 |
| pierre s du pont v: Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents , 1941 |
| pierre s du pont v: Commercial & Financial Chronicle, Bankers Gazette, Commercial Times, Railway Monitor and Insurance Journal , 1915 |
| pierre s du pont v: Moody's Manual of Railroads and Corporation Securities , 1924 |
| pierre s du pont v: The Commercial and Financial Chronicle , 1915 |
| pierre s du pont v: Moodys Manual of Railroads and Corporation Securities. Government, State and Municipal Supplement , 1907 |
| pierre s du pont v: Association of Centenary Firms and Corporations of the United States Association of Centenary Firms and Corporations of the United States, 1916 |
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| pierre s du pont v: The Dream Maker: William C. Durant, Founder of General Motors Bernard A. Weisberger, 2024-06-15 “Billy Durant (1861-1947) put together General Motors, model by model, and twice lost it — to the bankers and the engineers, and to ego. It’s a big, meaty, broadly suggestive story that Bernard Weisberger tells — properly qualified and documented — to rescue Durant from the ‘oblivion which is the price of failure in America.’ Durant’s fate, it appears, was in his stars. His energy and drive came from maternal grandfather Henry Howland Crapo, midwest magna-merchant, first citizen of Flint, and twice Michigan’s governor. The failure — dreaded and repeatedly — was that of his wastrel father. Leaving school young, he quickly ‘unveiled his true, shining gift, which was salesmanship’ — but not of the conventional, glad-handing sort; rather, he conveyed his own faith in the product, opening new vistas for the customer. The problem, to find a worthy product — or to make one — was solved with the appearance of a simple cart, mounted on ingenious springs, that didn’t jounce. Within hours Durant had bought out the cart ‘factory,’ raised the necessary money, and acquired a partner — the first of the exceptionally able associates (Nash, Champion, Kettering, Chrysler, Sloan) whom he fired with his dreams. The crucial jump into auto production — ‘a whole new physical and economic landscape’ — came with the foundering Buick; and it was then that Durant discovered, critically, the ability to raise money in the stock market from the sale of nebulous assets. As Durant goes on by this means to incorporate GM, to add a parts division, to diversify (‘Frigidaire’ was his name and baby too), Weisberger returns intermittently to his dual nature — the empire-builder impatient of routine and detail. But it was also pride that he’d proven himself not his father’s son that brought Durant down — for he lost GM the second time by trying single-handedly, in 1929, to prop up the tottering market for its stocks; and this madness the Morgans and Du Ponts could not excuse. Nothing, however, becomes Durant more than his failure to admit defeat; after the collapse of another auto company, launched under his name, he returned to Flint to set up, foresightedly, a respectable bowling alley. His ‘pathetic dignity and courage’ cap a memorable personal portrait far above the business-biography norm.” — Kirkus “Billy Durant deserved a good biography, and he got one... Weisberger has... collect[ed] every scrap of information that could be found and [put] it together in a complete picture of Durant and his work. It gives the first comprehensive account of his family background and private life... A variety of interesting figures appear, some well-known, others now forgotten — Alfred P. Sloan, Pierre Du Pont, John J. Raskob, Charles W. Nash, Walter Chrysler, Louis Chevrolet, David D. Buick. Each has a biographical sketch. Durant himself is appraised remarkably dispassionately, good points and bad, from his ability to see the great opportunities in the automobile industry to speculative mania that ultimately destroyed him... [Durant] emerges in this book very much like the protagonist in a Greek tragedy. He rose high and fell far because his great talents were offset be equally great flaws... Billy Durant could make dreams. He just could not make them come true.” — The Washington Post “[A] monumental work... Weisberger, ha[s]... painstakingly explored and researched America’s greatest success story.” — The Lantern (Columbus, Ohio) |
| pierre s du pont v: The Federal Reporter , 1919 Includes cases argued and determined in the District Courts of the United States and, Mar./May 1880-Oct./Nov. 1912, the Circuit Courts of the United States; Sept./Dec. 1891-Sept./Nov. 1924, the Circuit Courts of Appeals of the United States; Aug./Oct. 1911-Jan./Feb. 1914, the Commerce Court of the United States; Sept./Oct. 1919-Sept./Nov. 1924, the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia. |
| pierre s du pont v: Reports of the United States Board of Tax Appeals , 1938 |
| pierre s du pont v: Studies in the History of the United States Courts of the Third Circuit Stephen B. Presser, 1982 |
| pierre s du pont v: United States Circuit Courts of Appeals Reports United States. Courts of Appeals, 1920 |
| pierre s du pont v: Tax Court Digest Lois G. Moore, 1952 |
| pierre s du pont v: Official Summary of Security Transactions and Holdings Reported to the Securities and Exchange Commission Under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 , 1950 |
| pierre s du pont v: Moody's Manual of Industrial and Miscellaneous Securities , 1914 |
| pierre s du pont v: They Poisoned the World Mariah Blake, 2025-05-06 A landmark investigation of the chemical industry's decades-long campaign to hide the dangers of forever chemicals, told through the story of a small town on the frontlines of an epic public health crisis In 2014, after losing several friends and relatives to cancer, an unassuming insurance underwriter in Hoosick Falls, New York, began to suspect that the local water supply was polluted. When he tested his tap water, he discovered dangerous levels of forever chemicals. This set off a chain of events that led to 100 million Americans learning their drinking water was tainted. Although the discovery came as a shock to most, the U.S. government and the manufacturers of these toxic chemicals—used in everything from lipstick and cookware to children’s clothing—had known about their hazards for decades. In They Poisoned the World, investigative journalist Mariah Blake tells the astonishing story of this cover-up, tracing its roots back to the Manhattan Project and through the postwar years, as industry scientists discovered that these chemicals refused to break down and were saturating the blood of virtually every human being. By the 1980s, manufacturers were secretly testing their workers and finding links to birth defects, cancer, and other serious diseases. At every step, the industry’s deceptions were aided by our government’s appallingly lax regulatory system—a system that has made us all guinea pigs in a vast, uncontrolled chemistry experiment. Drawing on years of on-the-ground reporting and tens of thousands of documents, Blake interweaves the secret history of forever chemicals with the moving story of how a lone village took on the chemical giants—and won. From the beloved local doctor to the young mother who took her fight all the way to the nation’s capital, citizen activists in Hoosick Falls and beyond have ignited the most powerful grassroots environmental movement since Silent Spring. Humane and revelatory, this book will provoke outrage—and hopefully inspire the change we need to protect the health of every American for generations to come. |
| pierre s du pont v: Working Knowledge Catherine L. Fisk, 2009 Skilled workers of the early nineteenth century enjoyed a degree of professional independence because workplace knowledge and technical skill were their property, or at least their attribute. In most sectors of today's economy, however, it is a foundati |
| pierre s du pont v: Poor's , 1925 |
| pierre s du pont v: Amassing Power David Perera Massell, Forest History Society, 2000 At the turn of the century American industrialist J.B. Duke set his sights on one of North America's greatest and most spectacular rivers - the Saguenay. In Amassing Power David Massell chronicles thirty years of international intrigue as Duke manoeuvred to gain access to, develop, and sell the tremendous hydro-electric potential of a remote river in Quebec. The damming of the Saguenay brought industrialisation on a grand scale to rural Quebec in the form of newsprint and aluminum manufacture. Tapping into rich and diverse sources in Canada, the United States, and Europe, Massell provides an interdisciplinary, cross-border study of American capital and Canadian resources. He shows us how ever-larger amounts of capital yielded increasingly massive and sophisticated applications of hydroelectric technology. Grand industrial plans, in turn, encroached upon provincial water rights and farmers' lands, which drew the attention of the state. He examines the protracted power struggle between public and private interests - between American capitalists and the nascent bureaucracy of the province of Quebec - and describes the origins and evolution of the events that led to state control over hydraulic resources in the province. In doing so he provides vivid portraits of Duke and of Quebec politicians of the period and gives a dramatic account of the protracted battle of wits between Duke's chief engineer, William States Lee, and Quebec's chief of Hydraulic Service, Arthur Amos. Amassing Power speaks to the integration of North American economies, vividly illustrating the process by which American capital drew Canada's resource-rich North into the economic orbit of the United States. |
| pierre s du pont v: Everybody Ought to Be Rich David Farber, 2013-04-18 Today, consumer credit, employee stock options, and citizen investment in the stock market are taken for granted--fundamental facts of American economic life. But few people realize that they were first widely promoted by John Jakob Raskob (1879-1950), the innovative financier and self-made businessman who built the Empire State building, made millions for DuPont and General Motors, and helped shape the contours of modern capitalism. David Farber's Everybody Ought to Be Rich is the first biography of Raskob, a man who shunned the limelight (he was the anti-Trump of his time) but whose impact on free market enterprise can hardly be overstated. A colorful figure, Raskob's life evokes the roaring twenties, the Catholic elite, the boardrooms of America's biggest corporations, and the rags-to-riches tale that is central to the American dream. Farber follows Raskob's remarkable trajectory from a teenage candy seller on the railway between Lockport and Buffalo to the pinnacles of wealth and power. With no formal education but possessed of a boundless energy and an unshakeable faith in individual initiative (his motto was Go ahead and do something!), Raskob partnered with great industrialists and financiers, buying up companies, leveraging investments, reorganizing corporations, funneling money into the political system, and creating new pools of credit for rich investors and middle class consumers alike--practices commonplace today but revolutionary at the time. His most famous innovation was mass consumer credit, which he offered to individual car buyers, enabling working and middle-class Americans to purchase GM's more expensive cars. Raskob desperately wanted to bridge class divides and to share the wealth American corporations were fast creating--so that everyone could be rich. Chronicling Raskob's short-comings as well as his successes, Everybody Ought to Be Rich illuminates a crucial but little-known figure in American capitalism whose influence can still be felt today. |
| pierre s du pont v: Internal Revenue Bulletin United States. Bureau of Internal Revenue, 1935 |
| pierre s du pont v: Franco Sells Spain to America N. Rosendorf, 2014-02-18 A groundbreaking study of the Franco regime's utilization of Hollywood film production in Spain, American tourism, and sophisticated public relations programs - including the most popular national pavilion at the 1964-65 New York World's Fair - in a determined effort to remake the Spanish dictatorship's post-World War II reputation in the US. |
| pierre s du pont v: Annual Catalogue Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1896 |
| pierre s du pont v: Princeton Alumni Weekly Jesse Lynch Williams, Edwin Mark Norris, 1987 |
| pierre s du pont v: Poor's Industrial Section , 1925 |
| pierre s du pont v: The Struggle for Control of the Modern Corporation Robert F. Freeland, 2001 Winner of the 2005 Business History Review Newcomen Award for best book in business history, The Struggle for Control of the Modern Corporation provides a fascinating historical overview of decision-making and political struggle within one of America's largest and most important corporations. Drawing on primary historical material, Robert Freeland examines the changes in General Motors' organization between the years 1924 and 1970. He takes issue with the well-known argument of business historian Alfred Chandler and economist Oliver Wiliamson, who contend that GM's multidivisional corporate structure emerged and survived because it was more efficient than alternative forms of organization. This book illustrates that for most of its history, GM intentionally violated the fundamental axioms of efficient organization put forth by these analysts. It did so in order to create cooperation and managerial consent to corporate policies. Freeland uses the GM case to re-examine existing theories of corporate governance, arguing that the decentralized organizational structure advocated by efficiency theorists may actually undermine cooperation, and thus foster organizational decline. |
| pierre s du pont v: Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications United States. Superintendent of Documents, 1985 |
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| pierre s du pont v: Hearings United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations, 1939 |
| pierre s du pont v: Hearings United States. Congress. Senate, 1940 |
| pierre s du pont v: First Supplemental Civil Functions Appropriation Bill for 1941 United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations, 1940 |
| pierre s du pont v: 1956 Presidential and Senatorial Campaign Contributions and Practices United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Rules and Administration, 1956 |
| pierre s du pont v: Departments of State, Commerce, and Justice Appropriation Bill for 1941, Hearings Before the Subcommittee of ... , 76-3 on H.R. 8319 United States. Congress. Senate. Appropriations Committee, 1940 |
| pierre s du pont v: Moody's Manual of Railroads and Corporation Securities , 1914 |
| pierre s du pont v: Technical Innovation in American History Rosanne Welch, Peg A. Lamphier, 2019-02-22 From the invention of eyeglasses to the Internet, this three-volume set examines the pivotal effects of inventions on society, providing a fascinating history of technology and innovations in the United States from the earliest European colonization to the present. Technical Innovation in American History surveys the history of technology, documenting the chronological and thematic connections between specific inventions, technological systems, individuals, and events that have contributed to the history of science and technology in the United States. Covering eras from colonial times to the present day in three chronological volumes, the entries include innovations in fields such as architecture, civil engineering, transportation, energy, mining and oil industries, chemical industries, electronics, computer and information technology, communications (television, radio, and print), agriculture and food technology, and military technology. The A–Z entries address key individuals, events, organizations, and legislation related to themes such as industry, consumer and medical technology, military technology, computer technology, and space science, among others, enabling readers to understand how specific inventions, technological systems, individuals, and events influenced the history, cultural development, and even self-identity of the United States and its people. The information also spotlights how American culture, the U.S. government, and American society have specifically influenced technological development. |
| pierre s du pont v: Repealing National Prohibition Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, David E. Kyvig, 2000 A study of the political reaction against the 18th Amendment, a response that led to its reversal 14 years later by the 21st Amendment. This work uses archival evidence to examine the liquor ban and to draw attention to the bi-partisan movement led by the Association Against Prohibition Amendment. |
| pierre s du pont v: Cases Decided in the Court of Claims of the United States United States. Court of Claims, 1922 |
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Pierre is the ninth-most populous city of South Dakota, and the second-least populous U.S. state capital (after Montpelier, Vermont). Founded in 1880 on the Missouri River, the city was …
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Pierre is a masculine given name. It is a French form of the name Peter. [1] Pierre originally meant "rock" or "stone" in French (derived from the Greek word πέτρος (petros) meaning …
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Located in the center of the state, Pierre (pronounced “peer”) is South Dakota’s capital and the second-smallest capital city in the country. Just across the Missouri River is its sister city, Fort …
Meaning, origin and history of the name Pierre
Oct 6, 2024 · French form of Peter. This name has been consistently popular in France since the 13th century, but fell out of the top 100 names in 2017.
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4 days ago · On June 14th, kids and their families are invited to a morning of fun-filled fishing and prizes at the 18th Annual Oahe Downstream Kid's Fishing Derby! The event will take place at …
Pierre, SD - Official Website | Official Website
City of Pierre 2301 Patron Parkway Pierre, SD 57501. Phone: 605-773-7407. Fax: 605-773-7406
Pierre, South Dakota - Wikipedia
Pierre is the ninth-most populous city of South Dakota, and the second-least populous U.S. state capital (after Montpelier, Vermont). Founded in 1880 on the Missouri River, the city was selected …
Visit Pierre South Dakota - Pierre Area Chamber of Commerce
#OaheDays #staypierre #hifromsd #pierradise 🎤 Get ready, Pierre! Struggle Jennings is hitting the stage at Oahe Days! 🔥 Join us for an unforgettable night of music, energy, and powerful …
Pierre - Wikipedia
Pierre is a masculine given name. It is a French form of the name Peter. [1] Pierre originally meant "rock" or "stone" in French (derived from the Greek word πέτρος (petros) meaning "stone, rock", …
Pierre - Stardew Valley Wiki
Mar 29, 2025 · Pierre is a villager who lives in Pelican Town. He owns and runs Pierre's General Store. Schedule. Pierre can be found running his general store each day between 9am and 5pm …
THE 15 BEST Things to Do in Pierre (2025) - Tripadvisor
Jun 26, 2017 · Things to Do in Pierre, South Dakota: See Tripadvisor's 5,096 traveler reviews and photos of Pierre tourist attractions. Find what to do today, this weekend, or in June. We have …
capjournal.com | The Voice of the Capital City
The number one source of local news and information for the Pierre/Ft. Pierre area, providing local breaking news, sports, and opinions.
Pierre - Travel South Dakota
Located in the center of the state, Pierre (pronounced “peer”) is South Dakota’s capital and the second-smallest capital city in the country. Just across the Missouri River is its sister city, Fort …
Meaning, origin and history of the name Pierre
Oct 6, 2024 · French form of Peter. This name has been consistently popular in France since the 13th century, but fell out of the top 100 names in 2017.
Event List | Pierre Area Chamber of Commerce
4 days ago · On June 14th, kids and their families are invited to a morning of fun-filled fishing and prizes at the 18th Annual Oahe Downstream Kid's Fishing Derby! The event will take place at the …
