Word: edsel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Edsel Ford, son of Henry, bought an estate on Jupiter Island, north of Palm Beach...
...than Pitchers Lefty Gomez ($20,000) and Carl Hubbell ($17,500). From Hal Roach Studios fat Funnyman Oliver Hardy had received only about half as much ($85,316) as his slender colleague Stan Laurel ($156,266). Henry Ford drew no salary from Ford Motor Co., while Son Edsel's $100,376 was topped by Ford's Vice President P. E. Martin ($128,008) and General Manager Charles E. Sorensen ($115,100). Pundit Walter Lippmann of the New York Herald Tribune made $54,329, whereas older and more famed Herald Tribune Columnist Mark Sullivan drew only $23,527, Franklin...
Henry Ford II, son of Edsel Bryant Ford, entered Yale...
Hale and ebullient in a grey tweed suit and straw hat, Henry Ford stepped briskly into the powerhouse of his huge River Rouge plant one morning last week accompanied by Son Edsel and other princes of his empire. The wiry, old motor manufacturer, who will be 73 next week, stopped to chat with newshawks, glancing fondly and frequently at a newly installed steam turbine generator towering 21 ft. from the floor...
Ella Wheeler Wilcox plays the mandolin; Groucho Marx, Bing Crosby and Edsel Ford's son Henry II, the guitar; William Randolph Hearst used to strum a banjo. Not any of these but 1,500 other adepts of fretted instruments gathered last week in Minneapolis for the 35th annual convention of the American Guild of Banjoists, Mandolinists & Guitarists. Convention manager and official host was Chester William Gould, 36, a big, loud-voiced banjoist, organizer of the 50-piece Gould Mandolin Orchestra, which this week was to perform a Mexican Fantasia in costume, and of the champion Go-piece Gould Banjo...