Word: edsel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus did Henry Ford break precedents. He and Edsel Ford do not drink beer and he has never permitted his employes to drink or smoke. Second innovation was to show his new model ahead of other automakers instead of several weeks after. Next day he broke a third precedent. He talked to all his 7,000 dealers and their salesmen simultaneously by long distance telephone...
...Duke" (Headmaster George Van Sant-voord) might be, they wanted no more of him. They were fed up with the classroom tyrannies. Besides, Students Wetter and Newberry were not doing well in their studies. With Students Wetter and Newberry roomed another boy: Henry Ford II, son of Edsel. They had told him their plan but he did not want to run away to sea. So they went alone, donning their loudest socks and most "collegiate" suits, taking between them $46 pocket money. They knew they would be missed at dinner, but once past the dining hall they were on their...
...Edsel Ford told me he would never put into effect anything that looked like collective bargaining," grimly remarked General Johnson. "As soon as I have a clear-cut violation of the code, I will act. I will turn the case over to the Attorney General...
...Edsel Ford, always admirable in his restraint, has told General Johnson that he "will have no truck with collective bargaining", and father Henry insists that he has "nothing to say about the National Recovery Act". No one has proved that the Fords are violating the hour and wage scales prescribed by Washington, but they refuse to throw open their books to the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce, and this, since they are not members, is reasonable enough. General Johnson, however, is eager for a test of his much touted enforcement machinery, and there is little doubt that he will visit...
...most willing witness was Wilfred Leland Sr. One night, he testified, Edsel Ford had summoned him for a conference on the Lincoln sale. Son Edsel told him to come by a back road and enter the Ford mansion through a side door. During the conference Mr. Leland confided that he was dickering with Manhattan bankers and Henry Ford thereupon promised to buy the company. But Mr. Ford shrewdly advised Mr. Leland that he "should continue to negotiate, however, and should dress shabbily, go unshaven for two or three days, so as to appear poor and discouraged about the affair...