Word: durant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Attempting a two pronged attack with the idea of saving both money and food for Europe, the Council ground to an early halt on the solid, rock of Mr. Aldrich Durant '02, Business Manager. Mr. Durant shield understandably when presented with a plan to save 2000 1bs. of wheat per week and send the resultant money saving to Europe in the form the C.A.R.E. packages. Negotiation, followed by more negotiation produced nothing more definite than a nebulous idea that while food could be saved, the University's dining halls were operating at a tremendous deficit and any attempt to save...
Even after an excellent, but brittle project had been shattered into a zillion fragments, the job of scarping up the residue was badly hacked. Mr. Durant agreed to help the Council committee release a ton of wheat each week for shipment abroad, but demanded a mandate from the student body. This necessitated a poll. It was ready in five long weeks and promptly voted by a fourteen-man session of the Council. Hoping to get everything just right when speed was the important factor, the committee launched into a lengthy correspondence with Charles Lauckman. He returned a five question, sheet...
...addition, the new poll, if accepted by Durant and the Council, states that "a cut in consumption of wheat products . . . would mean a . . . monetary saving for the University Dining Halls," and this money would be poured back into dining halls to improve food quality...
...poll, scheduled for distribution throughout the University today and already approved by Business Manager Aldrich Durant '02, was prepared by the Council food committee on the recommendation of Charles Luckman, Chairman of the Citizen's Food Committee...
Lally was instructed by the Council to re-draft the poll with the aid of other members. Weld said that it will be presented to the student body 'as soon as possible," and stated that Durant has assured the Council that if the voluntary savings program is approved. It will go into effect soon after the vote is taken...