Word: durante
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lenin, and Gandhi, only make one change from a smile to bursting laughter. Mr. Holmes' parlor-pseudo liberalism seems to amount to mere naivete with the added assumption that his audiences are credulous enough to be swayed by his effusions. Mr. Holmes is well qualified to compete with Will Durant in this respect...
...fellow businessmen in Lansing, offering him the management and control of a new automobile company using his initials for a name. R. E. Olds thus became the founding-president of Reo Motor Car Co. Olds Motor Works was later one of the original divisions of William Crapo Durant's General Motors, but Mr. Olds and Reo have been stoutly independent for 30 years. Last week the white-crested old motorman, who has been inactive for a decade, suddenly found himself in the midst of a scurrilous proxy fight...
...readers are patriotic; of the 49 authors listed, only 10 are foreign. In the last ten years they have begun to take an interest in history and philosophy; H. G. Wells's Outline of History (1926) has sold 684,000 copies and William J. Durant's The Story of Philosophy (1927), 545,000. Col. Charles A. Lindbergh's We (1927) ran up a sale of 594,000. Latest book listed is Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front (1929; 564,300). Only Nobel-Prizewinners: Henryk Sienkewicz, with Quo Vadis (1896; 504,600); Sinclair...
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...
...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...