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Married. Mrs. Diana Lucy Munro, 38, eldest daughter of Great Britain's Stanley Baldwin; to George Durant Kemp-Welch. 26, onetime cricket captain of Cambridge; in London...
...drama. Its annual show is always "good theatre," replete with all the tricks of the stage.* A few years ago the prima donna had a dozen great impresarios. Last week General Motors, preparing for motor show festivities, called the roll of its past executives. Among them were William Crapo Durant, Henry Martyn Leland, Alexander Winton, John D. Maxwell, Ransom Eli Olds, Charles W. Nash, Roy D. Chapin- impresarios...
...American Locomotive Co.'s Pittsburgh works as assistant manager. A year later he was promoted to manager. But it was in the automobile business that Chrysler first proved his ability as an executive as well as an operating man. In 1912 Charles W. Nash, who had succeeded Durant as head of General Motors, put him in charge of Buick. For two years Chrysler kept a cot in the factory. Buick's production jumped from 40 to over 500 cars a day. When Durant made his comeback into General Motors, Chrysler became vice president in charge of GM operations...
Married. Margery Durant Campbell Daniel Cooper, aviation enthusiast, daughter of Motorman Crapo Durant; and Commander Fitzhugh Green. 45, arctic explorer, author (Bob Bartlett, Master Mariner; Martin Johnson, Lion Hunter; Dick Byrd, Air Explorer); in Bronxville. N. Y. It was her fourth marriage, his second...
...cries and pleadings of that poor old woman when that burly black brute attacked her and why not turn back the "March of Time" a few years and dramatize the scene of the brutal attack and murder of a young woman-the mother of little children-that occurred near Durant, Okla. That little woman was a kinswoman of mine. That was one of the most fiendish crimes I have ever heard of. I can't say that I approve of the methods that are sometimes used in these lynchings, but they should be handled rough and they should...