Word: carli
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hyde Park, the President toured his well-grown fields in the small car which he drives himself, attended church, chose Dutchess County field stone for a new post office at Poughkeepsie. Most interesting visitor of the weekend was Bronx Democratic Leader and New York Secretary of State Edward J. Flynn. Correspondents guessed that Leader Flynn was trying to line up Presidential aid for Judge Jeremiah T. Mahoney in New York's mayoralty fight...
Sued. Professional Footballer Harold ("Red") Grange, one-time "Galloping Ghost" of the University of Illinois: for $25,000; by one Mrs. May Battaglia, who claimed she was permanently injured when Footballer Grange drove through a red light, struck her car; in Chicago...
...street the name Cord means a low-slung automobile, rare and swank, which is entirely too expensive for him to own. To that class which can afford the car, the name means a profane, bespectacled young capitalist whose life has been a garage mechanic's dream. Errett Lobban Cord got his start in Los Angeles building "racing" bodies for junked Fords. He drove in dirt track races in Tacoma. He worked in a garage. In his early 20s he became a flash automobile salesman for the old Moon agency in Chicago. In 1924 he walked into the subdued Auburn...
...aggressive 42-year old Hupp executive named Thomas Bradley. As director of purchases for the company since 1934, bristle-topped, freckled Mr. Bradley had an inside view of the effect of Andrews' cavalier administration. Having been a vice-president and director of the old Paige-Detroit Motor Car Co. and a director of its successor, Graham Paige, he also knew a great deal about the independent automobile business. In the spring of 1936 Bradley took counsel with Hupp's director of sales and chief engineer, drew up an analysis of the company which he put before the directors...
...models, a six, selling for under $1,000 and an eight, listed at around $1,200. President Bradey, whose vacationing this summer has been limited to Sundays with his family in their Ontario cottage, figures that if only 7% of Hupp's faithful owners buy the new car the company will break even on a production of about 1,500 cars a month. A strike is the last thing he looks for from Hupp's prospective 1,200 workers, believing that unionized or not they will "stick with us and help get Hupp going...