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...WILL DURANT...
Long advocated by Will Durant and other writers of today, it school in practical government has actually been founded and will offer instruction "on location" in Washington next year with the cooperation of the federal government. A model "West Point" for public servants, the National Institute of Public Affairs will accept Juniors, Seniors, and graduate students specializing in political science and put them through an "internship" at the capital...
...Lenin, and Gandhi, only make one change from a smile to bursting laughter. Mr. Holmes' parlor-pseudo liberalism seems to amount to mere naivete with the added assumption that his audiences are credulous enough to be swayed by his effusions. Mr. Holmes is well qualified to compete with Will Durant in this respect...
...fellow businessmen in Lansing, offering him the management and control of a new automobile company using his initials for a name. R. E. Olds thus became the founding-president of Reo Motor Car Co. Olds Motor Works was later one of the original divisions of William Crapo Durant's General Motors, but Mr. Olds and Reo have been stoutly independent for 30 years. Last week the white-crested old motorman, who has been inactive for a decade, suddenly found himself in the midst of a scurrilous proxy fight...
...readers are patriotic; of the 49 authors listed, only 10 are foreign. In the last ten years they have begun to take an interest in history and philosophy; H. G. Wells's Outline of History (1926) has sold 684,000 copies and William J. Durant's The Story of Philosophy (1927), 545,000. Col. Charles A. Lindbergh's We (1927) ran up a sale of 594,000. Latest book listed is Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front (1929; 564,300). Only Nobel-Prizewinners: Henryk Sienkewicz, with Quo Vadis (1896; 504,600); Sinclair...