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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...
...Ford himself had nothing to say last week, nor did Son Edsel, although the arrival of the decision made him three-quarters of an hour late to the Detroit combined performance of the Yale Dramatic Club and Whiffenpoof songsters.* Elated U. A. W. President Homer Martin dashed off a wire to Harry Bennett asking for conference. Said Mr. Martin: "You need not fear a conference of this sort. We do not believe in force or violence, as you evidently do." As translated by reporters into printable English, tough Mr. Bennett's comment was "Phooey...
...Edsel Ford's Son Henry II is a Yale sophomore...
...they attempted to distribute union literature at the gate of Ford's vast River Rouge plant (TIME, June 7). the Labor Board's complaint accuses Henry Ford of virtually every unfair labor practice covered by the law. The answer to the complaint was signed not by President Edsel Ford or any other officer of the company but by Harry H. Bennett, personnel director and head of the Ford police, better known as "Ford service men." Though the Ford answer denied both the charges and the Labor Board's jurisdiction over workers employed in local manufacture-thus laying...