Word: edsel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...moment of Mr. Franke's first appearance on the White House scene, septuagenarian Mr. Ford was trying out Attorney General Homer S. Cummings' bullet-proof Lincoln. With Mr. Ford on a breeze through the tortuous roadways of Rock Creek Park were his son Edsel and two Washington correspondents, Clifford Prevost of the Detroit Free Press and Jay G. Hayden of the Detroit News. Both Mr. Prevost and Mr. Hayden have developed excellent news contacts with Ford Motor Co., and they later were to serve as the only authoritative reporters of a historic two hours in the life...
...simple. His wife, with whom he recently celebrated his golden wedding anniversary, was using his private car, Glen Ridge, in Massachusetts, and at 8:40 a. m. the Guest of the Day stepped from a Pullman compartment into Washington's Union Station. In his wake was his son Edsel. Awaiting them was a sole and unofficial host. Major H. M. Cunningham, superintendent of the Ford assembly plant alongside the Potomac in nearby Alexandria, Va. In Major Cunningham's Lincoln, the party purred past the Alexandria home of John L. Lewis, through the plant grounds, and back to Washington...
...same day this week Henry Ford, 74, and Clara Bryant Ford celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary and Mrs. Ford's 71st birthday by dining informally at Son Edsel's with old friends & neighbors. Next day Dearborn luncheon clubs presented Motorman Ford with a book containing 4,000 admiring letters. The clubs also announced they had drawn up a 500,000-signature, mile-and-a-half-long petition to Franklin Roosevelt, asking him to call off Labor's attacks on Ford. The petition will be carted to Washington in a trailer...
Late in January, A. M. A. President Macauley (Packard) and a group of other automotive presidents including Ford's Edsel Ford, Chrysler's K. T. Keller and General Motors' William S. Knudsen were closeted for nearly two hours with President Roosevelt. No one would reveal then or last week precisely what went on, but it was admitted that the President said something must be done to haul the bemired automobile industry out of the slump...
...days later the President received a delegation of motormakers and finance company executives, including Edsel Ford, General Motors' William S. Knudsen, Chrysler Corp.'s K. T. Keller, Packard's Alvan Macauley, Commercial Credit's A. E. Duncan, Commercial Investment Trust's Henry Ittleson. As in most of his co-operation conferences, the President complained about specific aspects of business, this time the evils of easy installment credit and the irregularity of automobile employment. With these points the callers had no quarrel, departed with high resolves...