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Yale University Crew PositionName Class Residence Wt. Ht. Age Stroke W. R. Tappen '30 Pleasantville, N. Y. 160 5.11 21 No. 7 R. C. Durant '28 Hartford, Conn. 175 6.03 22 No. 6 W. W. Garnsey '30 Greeley, Col. 178 6.02 20 No. 5 L. W. Ladd '30 Cleveland, O. 195 6.05 20 No. 4 J. O. Rodgers '28 Pelham, N. Y. 174 6.00 21 No. 3 S. P. McCalmont '30S Franklin, Pa. 175 6.02 21 No. 2 R. E. Cushman '29 Utica, N. Y. 167 6.02 22 Bow B. W. Taylor '28 New York...
...when William Crapo Durant, stock market operator and motor manufacturer, sailed for Europe seven weeks ago, he said nothing striking. And yet he is one of the headiest bulls of the present market (which many sane economists believe is at a peak...
Walter Percy Chrysler is from Kansas.* He was a shop helper; he became a mechanic, a superintendent, a general manager. When William Crapo Durant was first ousted from General Motors control (1911; again 1920) and Charles W. Nash (now chairman of Nash Motors) became General Motors president, Engineer Chrysler became Buick's general manager. He developed the steel body for Buicks; increased the output, cut production costs...
...When Mr. Durant went back to General Motors (1916) he insisted that Mr. Chrysler be vice-president. There was a quarrel over policy; Mr. Chrysler resigned. John North Willys figuratively clutched at him to work down Willys-Overland's $46,000,000 bank debt. Within less than a year the debt was down...
Hupmobile was William Crapo Durant's. He owns, reputedly, a large block of Hupmobile shares. He controls, too, Durant Motors (Durant and Star cars), Locomobile Co. of America, and more than a year ago he formed Consolidated Motors, Inc. in Delaware, and advertised in 48 newspapers of 29 cities that "exactly as the Buick in 1908 was used as the nucleus and the Keystone of the great General Motors," he intended to use the new Star Six for his new company. Financial writers jeered at Mr. Durant as a stockjobber (TIME, April...