Word: durant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...process. In April rights to $100 7% preferred stock were offered. At the time the common stock was selling at about 76, had been to 103, was touted to go to 500 under the management of a capable pool said to be directed by shrewd Speculator William Crapo Durant...
Starting with the next (September) issue, The Mentor will no longer have a theme-subject. Instead there will be articles on many a different topic, by such authors as Walter Davenport, W. E. Woodward, Margaret Widdemer, Will Durant. There will be seven four-color pages in place of rotogravure; a cover in the "modern manner"; a history of tennis by William Tatem Tilden, 2nd; a history of dog fashions by Albert Payson Terhune...
...time, 55 hours after she left Lakehurst, the Graf Zeppelin landed. A multitudinous crowd on the ground, fences, poles, roofs and steeples screamed joyously. Passengers debarked quickly. Count Albrecht Montgelas carried a fat bundle. It contained 52 ears of golden bantam corn, bon voyage gift of Mrs. William Crapo Durant. He fed them to his comrades that evening...
Many of the automobile pioneers were frostbitten, ugly, rough-tongued, heavyhanded, but they spent nights in their half-built factories tightening nuts on rush orders with their own hands, and days in the offices of friends, trying to raise money and postpone payments. William Crapo Durant, twice head of General Motors, left a room full of irritated financial patrons to eat apple pie, and, mouth full, to roar full-chested laughter at a squib...
...record of Ellison ("Ipso Facto") DuRant Smith of South Carolina is as follows...