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...Rupert Hughes, Anita Loos, John Erskine, Finley Peter Dunne, George S. Kaufman, Laurence Stallings, Deems Taylor, etc., etc. (TIME, Sept. 24). The G. O. P. list was by far the bestseller. It included Zane Grey, Harold Bell Wright, Kathleen Norris, Edward W. Bok, Bruce Barton, Earl Derr Biggers, Will Durant, Albert W. Atwood, Robert W. Chambers, Booth Tarkington, Thomas L. Masson, Hermann Hagedorn, Vernon Kellogg, Daniel Frohman, Don Marquis. The last, an oldtime Democrat, author of The Old Soak, said: "I like the man: his tone, his manner, his essential character...
Trans-Atlantic Talk. When William Crapo Durant, stock market operator, was in Europe this summer he spent more than $25,000 on trans-Atlantic telephone calls to the U. S. But never for one call did he, nor anyone else, ever spend as much as F. B. Odium did last week. For 95 minutes of speech he paid $1,425. He is director of several U. S. electrical companies, notably, of Electric Bond & Share...
...apparently took the lead. He went into the stock market. On a large scale, he bought shares of various corporations. Financial writers began calling him a speculator. They linked him with Arthur W. Cutten of Chicago, an out-&-out, but secretive market operator. They compared him with William Crapo Durant, ousted founder of General Motors and now one of the shrewdest, hardest hitting operators in Wall Street...
...said William Crapo Durant, stock-market student, motor manufacturer (Durant Motors, Inc.). He was not talking about himself and he felt he had a right to talk that way about other business leaders, because he was offering $25,000 for the best plan neatly typewritten in 2,000 words and submitted before December 1 to the prize committee on the 18th Amendment, room 2401 Fisk Building, New York City, a plan, "To make the 18th Amendment effective...
Friends of the 18th Amendment were vexed to see this suggestion that it is ineffective. Theorists, pedants, cranks, impecunious school teachers and hardboiled newspaper reporters began planning to win Mr. Durant...