Word: durante
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Author Parker is more entertaining when she is funny, but more herself in graver or more spiteful key. Mr. Durant is the story of a man who got into trouble with his stenographer, out of it with the help of what he doubtless imagines is providence. Little Curtis is a small, indeterminate but pathetic boy who has had the misfortune to be adopted by the very respectable first lady of a very small town. Best story: Big Blonde, which won first prize in the O. Henry Memorial award (1929). It is the story of a good-natured woman who takes...
...Here [in having well-known critics select the books] is a calculated misunderstanding of the critic's function: which is to produce good literature of his own on the subject of books, pictures, music, etc. . . . good books are not produced frequently and regularly." For such popularizers as Will Durant (Story of Philosophy}, Lewis Browne (This Believing World), Hendrik Willem Van Loon (The Story of Mankind), Critic Notch has less than no admiration; calls their books "an assault upon the world's cultural values...
Bull in Bearskin. Alarmed by figures as these, but angered more by faults he claims exist in the Federal Reserve system, a bull last week clad himself in a bearskin. It was no less a bull than William Crapo Durant who said: "With regret I make the prediction that we see next winter business conditions unimproved, longer breadlines, more soup kitchens, continued uneasiness and distress a more pronounced tendency to Social and Communism?this regardless of assurance from Washington that every thing is all right...
Ford. In 1908, William Crapo Durant, then the head of his new General Motors Corp.. decided that Ford Motor Co. was a good buy. He persuaded Henry Ford to sell out for $8,000,000, but then failed to persuade his directors to pay $8,000,000. Last week, with the appearance of the 1929 balance sheet and income account, statisticians were trying to figure out just what Ford Motor Co. would cost...
William Crapo Durant sued the New York Telegram and eight other newspapers and news services for $45,000,000, the biggest libel action ever based on one story. The publications had carried a story which he interpreted as connecting him with shady stock deals resulting in heavy market losses to Mrs. Elizabeth C. Hudson...