Word: durant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Greene also spoke with gratitude of the work done by the staff. Aldrich Durant, Business Manager of the University, co-operated splendidly and the Maintenance Department, working under him, handled all the physical arrangements for the affair, even supplying the labor for building the Tercentenary Theatre. Charles F. McNeil '27, in charge of lodgings and catering, was also mentioned as having done a highly efficent...
Last week even readers with no great sentiment for Wall Street's old bulls felt the poignancy of these headlines. In 1886, when Henry Ford was sawing wood on his father's farm, William Crapo Durant was introducing mass production to the buggy business. What passed for Vision in those days was astigmatism to Durant. He crashed the gas buggy business in 1904 by taking over Buick; in 1908 he combined Buick, Oakland and Oldsmobile into General Motors. When Lee. Higginson and the Seligmans manipulated him out of it, he went after Ford with Chevrolet, in which...
...took 24 hours to set the Durant dish-washing tale straight. Though declaring himself bankrupt last February, Automan Durant is no down-&-outer, still maintains offices on Park Avenue, weekends on a $100,000 estate at Deal, N. J. President of Deal Gables Corp. (real estate), he owns a one-story building in North Asbury, which was built as a salesroom for Durant cars ten years ago. Concessionaires opened a food market there last December, did so badly that one by one they had to close up. Last month Landlord Durant took the place in hand, later announced the opening...
Capitalist, not counterman, Mr. Durant went down to North Asbury last week to see that all was swept and garnished for the grand opening. According to his nephew Wallace R. Willett, he went through the new concessions "like a whirlwind." Mr. Durant took up a mop in one shop, a dish cloth in another, to show concessionaires his ideas of spotlessness. Next day he departed for his old home town of Flint, Mich, on other business while North Asbury housewives stormed the Market's debut, attracted by Mr. Durant's special lunches at 5? an item, his special...
Said faithful Nephew Willett: "Mr. Durant is just as enthusiastic over building up the Food Market as he ever was over automobiles. In fact he no longer can bear the thought of an automobile...