Word: dearborn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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LITTLE SPITFIRE (Cort, Dearborn Street...
Aaron Sapiro, Jewish lawyer and organizer of farm cooperatives, is suing Henry Ford for $1,000,000 because of certain articles which appeared in the Dearborn Independent (TIME, March 21, 28). But, as the trial entered its fourth week, it seemed as if Mr. Sapiro were defending himself. For five days, he was put through a thoroughgoing grilling on the witness stand by Senator James A. Reed, chief counsel for Mr. Ford. He was forced to admit that many of his farm organizations had failed, that he personally had received fees of $400,000, that he hoped some...
Years hence, when the definitive biography of Henry Ford is written, there will be a paragraph beginning with the hour of 8:25 on the Sunday evening of March 27, 1927. At that moment he, aged 64, climbed into a Ford coupe at his factory laboratories at Dearborn, Mich., pointed the car's nose toward his home, half a mile away. Driving at his customary 25 miles per hour, even though the Chicago-Detroit highway was comparatively empty, he had nothing to vex him but a drizzling rain and a bleak landscape. Suddenly, as he crossed the Rouge River bridge...
...order to avoid publicity, Mr. Ford remained at home for two days before being taken to the Henry Ford Hospital at Dearborn. He had suffered a slight concussion of the brain, several deep cuts, innumerable bruises, no broken bones. He recovered gradually, painfully...
...Book Cadillac Hotel, Detroit, by an industrious Jew, Lawyer Aaron Sapiro, marked the end of the first week of a libel suit. Mr. Sapiro wants to vindicate his race and, incidentally, to obtain $1,000,000 in damages from Mr. Ford for certain articles published in the Dearborn Independent in 1924-25, which pictured a national menace in Mr. Sapiro's farm organization activities (TIME, March...