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...Walter P. Chrysler arrived from New York. Henry and Edsel Ford conferred with the officers of the Union Guardian Trust. Jovial Scotsman Alex Dow of Detroit Edison. Alvan Macauley of Packard. Burch Foraker of Michigan Bell Telephone, William Gordon Woolfolk of Detroit City Gas. Frederic and William A. Fisher (bodies), Dubois Young of Hupmobile, Charles T. Van Dusen of S. S. Kresge-the leading citizens of Detroit- Newberrys, McMillans. Algers-all were drawn into the conferences...
...Senator Couzens who had been staying in Washington talking into the ear of R. F. C. hurried home, lunched with Henry and Edsel Ford, sat on a platform with Henry Ford and watched 200 children of Dearborn dance and chirp to the tune of "RockaBye Baby." Their faces did not move at the lines...
...Edsel would put up the entire capital-$11,000,000-to take over the two crippled banks. As sole owners of the two new institutions, they would pick their own directors, run things to suit themselves. The Ford banks would eventually be merged...
...true that Henry Ford's $7,500,000 deposit was the largest. In addition Mr. Ford had loaned Union Guardian (of which Edsel Ford and his brother-in-law Ernest C. Kanzler are directors) another $11,000,000 in an earlier attempt to buttress the crumbling institution. The R. F. C. had put up $15.000.000. When Union Guardian approached the R. F. C. for more, Senator James Couzens, Henry Ford's oldtime partner and a bitter critic of the R. F. C., insisted that adequate security must be furnished. This the bank could not do for a loan...
...With the 30 days of public mourning for Calvin Coolidge over. President Hoover last week resumed White House festivities. At a state dinner to the Vice President, he and Dolly Curtis Gann led the line to the table. Among the 75 guests were John Davison Rockefeller Jr. and Edsel Bryant Ford. Two days later the President entertained 85 diplomats and guests who ate from gold service...