Word: dearborn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...German military rifles, held drills, occasionally used guns borrowed from the National Guard, which many of them were encouraged to join by a Sergeant Gottlieb Haas. C. From Detroit, Henry Ford, who once singed his fingers in an anti-Semitism campaign, wired the committee that German reprints of his Dearborn Independent articles were being used against his orders...
Into the S. S. Excelsior at Odessa were hoisted two Soviet-made Fords, bound for New York and Dearborn, a gift from the Gorki automobile factory to Henry Ford, a reminder from the Soviet Government that he had sold it his patents...
...Ford of France was by no means out, but no longer would he run his two billion-franc company with the absolutism which, along with mass production methods, he borrowed from his idol, the Ford of Dearborn. Andre Citroën has what Henry Ford mortally hates & fears -bankers...
...study but differences between ordinary brothers are so common that even the public ignores them. Yet last week Detroiters found much interest in comparing two brothers, one Henry, aged 70, the other William, aged 62. Both raised on a Michigan farm, both now residents of Detroit's suburb Dearborn, both surnamed Ford. The data...
Social Characteristics: Henry: shy, reserved, a thorough individualist who shuns the public, father of one son. William: father of three children, a mixer, member of many lodges, organizer of Dearborn's fire department and traffic system, once the town's president-chief of police (dual office), fond of distributing nickels and dimes to children, generally known as "Bill'' or "Uncle Bill," who, content with life, has said he would not change places with Henry. Business: Henry: an unsuccessful inventor at 40, owner and operator of the largest automobile business in the U. S. at 60. William...