Word: durants
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...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...
...exist to protect and improve the status of its members. Delinquent unionists ought to wake up to the fact that by holding back on their dues they are doing more than endangering their own jobs-they are hurting the union of their fellow-workers just as much as Aldrich Durant could do if he woke up one morning and decided to act like Mr. Ford's Harry Bennet...
...March 24, Aldrich Durant '02, business manager of the University, signed a contract with Stefant and the Waitresses' Union which makes Harvard, the employer, virtual policeman for labor. Beginning on April 30, the University will make union members pay their dues by using the force of dismissal...