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...Scott, director of the Peabody Museum, chairman; Keyes De W. Metcalf, director of the University Library; James A. McLaughlin, professor of Law; Mason Hammond, associate professor of Greek and Latin; Andrew J. Casner, professor of Law; Henry Chauncey, assistant dean; John M. Russell, assistant to the President, and Aldrich Durant, business manager...
Died. Louis Chevrolet, 62, the oldtime racing driver the car is named for; in Detroit. Backed by W. C. Durant, he started making Chevrolets in 1911, lost faith in the car's future, stepped out of Chevrolet Motor Co. three years later and then sold all his holdings. One of the world's great drivers, he entered his first race in 1905 as a substitute, outdrove famous Barney Oldfield, set a record of 68 m.p.h...
...book contains something more than a wealth of anecdotes about W. C. Durant, William Knudsen, Henry Ford, the Dodge Brothers, the Fisher Brothers, many another automotive bigshot-something not generally understood or valued in the U.S., something that must be read mostly between the lines: the story of what Grade A business management means and can achieve. It is the inadvertent self-revelation of a resourceful organizing genius who is a really great manager, but not in Mr. Burnham's sense. The greatness of Sloan's achievement is that he took the vast rambling collection of companies which...
This was the result of negotiations terminated on March 24 by Aldrich Durant '02, business manager of the University, Joseph Stefani, secretary-treasurer of the Cooks' and Pastry Cooks' Union, and Eva Rankin of the Waitresses' Union. According to that contract, the University agreed to dismiss all employee-union members whose unpaid dues up to twelve dollars were not paid before April...
Fire of another color fumed up last week in Washington. Ellison DuRant Smith Jr., 26, sprout of bag-eyed, walrusy Senator "Cotton Ed" of South Carolina, is clerk of the Senate Agriculture and Forestry Committee, whose chairman is old Cotton Ed. Young Mr. Smith, who has had the $3,900-a-year clerkship only eleven months, has been going to night classes at the National University Law School. When his draft number came up, he asked for deferment (to Class 2A) on the ground that he has a special employment status: he was indispensable to the Senate's Agriculture...