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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After his momentous trip in 1896, Mr. de Vaux has done much traveling, all with a purpose. From bicycles he turned to automobiles. He worked for General Motors, built the Pacific Coast Chevrolet plant at Oakland. Later he became associated with another ex-GM man, William Crapo Durant, built the Durant plant in Oakland, Calif., a showplace of Western industry. Since 1929 he has headed Durant Motor Co. of California which assembles and sells Durants under a participation contract with Durant Motors, Inc. In selling. Mr. de Vaux has attained a great reputation, reaps fat commissions. He lives in Piedmont...
...indictments. Promoter Andrews came out of that crash unscathed. He went to Manhattan, prospered in stocks and buildings; went to Los Angeles, prospered in stocks, hotels, penny slot-machines. So greatly did he prosper that he could play the market in company with that once great bull William Crapo Durant. He became and still is a director of Hupp Motor Car Corp. and of Budd Wheel...
With so agile and active a head, New Era Motors seemed bound to have a dashing history. Some months after it was formed, it acquired the Ruxton patents for a front-wheel drive. Rights to manufacture Ruxtons were sold to Moon Motor Co. Also, William Crapo Durant sold to Moon rights to manufacture his American cotton picker, of which much has been said, not much seen. New Era Motors received 150,000 shares of Moon in the deal, soon decided to oust the old Moon management. This was done. In the struggle, aided by tales of the cotton picker, Moon...
...charge, Brahman Moonje read into the record the explicit testimony of a white woman eyewitness, Miss Madeline Slade, daughter of a British Admiral, disciple of St. Gandhi. What Dr. Moonje read has just been published in the U. S. by Simon & Schuster on pages 158-160 of Philosopher Will Durant's The Case for India...
...Instructor in Economics; Edward Hastings Chamberlin, Assistant Professor of Economics; James Wilkinson Miller '28, Instructor in Philosophy; Michael Karpovich, Lecturer on History; Charles Washburn Putnam '11, Instructor in Government; William Ellery Sedgwick '22, Instructor in English; Theodore Spencer, Instructor in English; John Milton Potter '26, Instructor in History; Robert Durant Feild, Instructor in Fine Arts...