Word: edsel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...General Motors Sales Corp., Alfred P. Sloan Jr., William S. Knudsen, and 17 other General Motors and G. M. A. C. executives. Second was against Chrysler Corp., Chrysler Sales Corp., Dodge, De Soto, Plymouth, Commercial Credit Co., and 18 executives, including Walter P. Chrysler. Third was against Edsel Ford, Ford Motor Co., Universal Credit Corp. and twelve more executives. Maximum penalty for conviction on the indictments of violating the Sherman Act is $5,000 or a year in jail, or both. But the case is not likely to go before a jury until October, and Thurman Arnold presumably still believes...
Ford Motor Co. mails dividend checks to only three stockholders-Henry Ford, his son Edsel and Edsel's wife, Eleanor. Because it has no other stockholders to coddle, the company does not publish an income statement and the public cannot know exactly what Ford's earnings are. Only clue to the firm's profits & losses is the balance sheet it is required to file each year in Massachusetts. Last week the report for 1937 was filed and the public's annual guessing game got under way. Majority guess: Although Ford produced 1,314,369 cars & trucks...
...Rockefeller, whose U. S. primitives supplied such beauties as Edward Hicks's Residence of David Twining; Sportsman John Hay Whitney, who lent Whistler's Wapping on Thames; Financier Stephen C. Clark, who lent Homer's Croquet; Mrs. Cornelius N. Bliss; Financier Sam A. Lewisohn; Marshall Field; Edsel B. Ford; Manhattan Architect Philip L. Goodwin; Mrs. Stanley Resor of Manhattan and Robert Hudson Tannahill of Detroit. All except Mrs. Bliss and Mr. Tannahill are trustees of the Museum of Modern Art; but Mr. Bliss is a trustee and Mr. Tannahill is a cousin of Mrs. Edsel Ford. Outside...
First out at the White House door was hatless Edsel Ford. Behind trotted stooped but spry Henry Ford and Publicist William J. Cameron who usually speaks for Henry Ford and usually is at hand on those rare occasions when Mr. Ford speaks for himself. A throng of newsmen and Government clerks, idly curious during lunch hour, had been given to understand that Hosts Franklin & G. Hall Roosevelt and Federal Reserve Board Chairman Marriner S. Eccles would lunch with the Fords on the secluded terrace at the rear of the White House. But the party was shifted inside to the family...
...Toastmaster, and gentlemen, we are all on the spot. Stick to your guns, and I will help you, with the assistance of my son [Edsel], all I can. Thank...