Word: dearborn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...deaf inventor's ear he shouted welcome.† He was Friend Henry Ford. This was only Stage-Setter Ford's prolog. Proudly he led Mr. Edison to a building nearby, the inventor's oldtime laboratory, every plank and gadget of which had been brought to Dearborn, Mich., from Menlo Park, N. J. Ruminantly chewing tobacco as he inspected, Edison scuffed the dirt floor with his toe. "Why, Henry's even got that damn New Jersey clay here," he marveled. There later was to be staged the feature performance-Inventor Edison working by oil lamp over...
Last week Editor & Publisher turned specifically upon Edward L. Bernays, able Manhattan publicist (see above). Mr. Bernays, the magazine noted, had mailed "one of his familiar handouts" to New York newspapers, announcing that he was ready to make arrangements for newsgatherers when they journeyed to Dearborn, Mich., for the Edison-Ford celebration of light's golden jubilee. What gave rise to Editor & Publisher's wrath was the fact that Mr. Bernays' letter mentioned Herbert Clark Hoover. Commented Editor & Publisher:-''If Mr. Bernays were commissioned to make press arrangements for an address by the chief executive...
...cameramen of the University Film Foundation took their pictures, were H. W. Holmes '03. Dean of the Graduate School of Education, Harlow Shapley, Director of the Harvard Observatory, A.N. Holcombo '06, professor of Government, G.H. Chase '96,Deau of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and W. F. Dearborn, professor of Education...
...National Air Tour for Edsel B. Ford Reliability Trophy starts from Ford Airport, Dearborn, Mich...
...Historical Village at Dearborn, Mich., last week, Henry Ford and his son and grandsons witnessed the reopening of the school in which Henry Ford studied in 1870. Sitting once more beside Edsel Alexander Ruddiman, his oldtime desk-mate, who is now a learned chemist, Mr. Ford carved his initials on a desktop unreproved by Teacher. Although Mr. Ford is currently engaged in celebrating the Golden Jubilee of the electric light bulb, pupils at the old school will, for sentiment's sake, have to read by the light of oil lamps, be warmed by a wood stove, "just like Henry...