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4 days ago · The following year Durant regained control of GM with the help of chemical industrialist Pierre du Pont. Eager to keep top talent, Durant offered Chrysler the then-unheard-of salary offer of $10,000 a month for three years (165,000 in today’s dollars), with a $500,000 bonus at the end of each year, or an equal amount of GM stock.
4 days ago · General Motors is an American multinational vehicle manufacturer headquartered in Detroit, Michigan, and founded by William C. Durant, Charles Stewart Mott, and Frederic L. Smith in 1908.
5 days ago · At the federal level, child abuse prevention laws passed in 1974 mandated that child welfare agencies receive notification when an infant was born affected by “illegal drugs”.
20 hours ago · C. S. Lewis. Clive Staples Lewis FBA (29 November 1898 – 22 November 1963) was a British writer, literary scholar, and Anglican lay theologian. He held academic positions in English literature at both Magdalen College, Oxford (1925–1954), and Magdalene College, Cambridge (1954–1963). He is best known as the author of The Chronicles of ...
- Novelist, scholar, broadcaster
- University College, Oxford
- 2 step-sons, including Douglas Gresham
- Christian apologetics, fantasy, science fiction, children's literature
20 hours ago · Death. v. t. e. William Howard Taft (September 15, 1857 – March 8, 1930) was the 27th president of the United States, serving from 1909 to 1913, and the tenth chief justice of the United States, serving from 1921 to 1930, the only person to have held both offices. Taft was elected president in 1908, the chosen successor of Theodore Roosevelt ...
- Theodore Roosevelt
- Theodore Roosevelt
4 days ago · Martin Van Buren (born December 5, 1782, Kinderhook, New York, U.S.—died July 24, 1862, Kinderhook) was the eighth president of the United States (1837–41) and one of the founders of the Democratic Party. He was known as the “Little Magician” to his friends (and the “Sly Fox” to his enemies) in recognition of his reputed cunning and ...
1 day ago · Siege of Namur. William III (William Henry; Dutch: Willem Hendrik; 4 November 1650 – 8 March 1702), [b] also widely known as William of Orange, was the sovereign Prince of Orange from birth, Stadtholder of Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Guelders, and Overijssel in the Dutch Republic from the 1670s, and King of England, Ireland, and Scotland from ...
