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When Author Will Durant asked "What meaning has life for you?" reply, in the current issue of the Redbook, came from Helen Wills Moody: "The only thing that I know that I really want, is some means of exercising the restlessness which seems to be continually in my heart. . . . It is why I tried so hard to win a Phi Beta Kappa key [and did];. . . . I hope to heaven . . . this constant hope of arriving at some degree of perfection is not a peculiar form of conceit. . . . To me it is Religion. The other people you have written to will have...
...ahead and name the others. Mr. Bragg named John Jacob Raskob. chairman of the Democratic National Committee ; William F. Kenny, contractor friend of Alfred Emanuel Smith; William Crapo Durant, onetime president of General Motors Corp.; General Motorsman Frederic John Fisher, and Michael J. Meehan, theatre ticket seller who rose to Wall Street power by riding Radio from $25 a share...
Venture's Finish. For ten years Durant Motor Co. of California made and sold Durants. At the head of the company for five years was Norman de Vaux, popular onetime transContinental bicycle rider. When the agreement with Durant terminated, Mr. de Vaux decided the company should make its own car. The company became de Vaux-Hall Motors Corp. and in April 1931, its first de Vaux car was finished. Although May production was scheduled at 4,600 cars, registrations for all of 1931 were only 4,808 and fortnight ago the company went into receivership...
Birthdays. General August von Mackensen (82); Dr. William Temple Hornaday (77); Lord Jellicoe (72); Edward Hugh Sothern (72); William Crapo Durant (70); Robert Patterson Lament (64); Joseph Leiter (63); Gerard Swope (59); Newton Diehl Baker (60); Arthur Atwater Kent (58); Winston Churchill (57); Frank Jay Gould...
...show. But Andre Citroen, leading French motormaker, was in Manhattan. He attended a luncheon given for him by the directors of National Automobile Chamber of Commerce. Toastmaster was G. M.'s Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr.; guests included young Errett Lobban Cord of spectacular Auburn Automobile Co.; William Crapo Durant of Durant Motors, Inc.; Charles Michael...