Word: durant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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William James Durant, syndicated philosopher . . . Doctor of More Humane Letters...
...much-discussed President. Harding contributed Karin Michaelis' "The Dangerous Age", while the Father of our Country was represented by "The Private Life of Lewis XV." Will Durant's "Story of Philosophy" was the volume given by Calvin Coolidge, while "American Individualism" by Herbert Hoover is our own latest president's donation...
Tariff-Born Moves. Fortnight ago, faced by the new Canadian tariff, Nash Motors with Durant Motors of Canada, Ltd. formed a subsidiary to make automobiles at Leaside, Ont. Last week there were two other tariff-born moves. Reo Motor Car Co. took over the old Dodge Brothers plant at Toronto, will be making Canadian Reos shortly. Hupp Motor Car Corp. started work on a plant at Windsor, Ont., will be in production within 90 days...
Miss Marjorie Durant, daughter of wealthy automobile builder William Crapo Durant, was severely shaken when her airplane crashed through the fence of an airport at Santa Barbara, Calif. With her was a pilot and a Dr. N. H. Brish, physician to rich Stanley McCormick at the great estate where Mr. McCormick is held virtual prisoner as an incompetent...
...fifty-six pages of Ralph Barton Perry's little book, "A Defence of Philosophy", are very good reading and probably of far greater potential value to the layman than the several hundred that make up Mr. Durant's best-seller on the story of philosophy. Certainly, the essay leaves the reader with a respect for "those qualities of mind that prompt other men to plunge into the deep waters and roam the trackless forests of the great intellectual adventure...