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...cause for Fokker's rancor suggests itself earlier in the same chapter, where he tells of selling his first trimotored plane to Byrd for the latter's North Pole flight of 1926 "on condition that the Fokker name would be left on it. Edsel Ford had liberally financed Byrd, still, I was somewhat surprised to hear later that the Fokker had somehow become Josephine Ford...
...Khan Bahadur Fateh Jung, 44, the Nizam of Hyderabad in India (TIME, Nov. 24). His wealth in gold bricks and coins is estimated at $1,000,000,000. His wealth in jewels is uncounted. Second on the list comes John Davison Rockefeller Jr. He is followed by Henry and Edsel Bryant Ford; next is John Pierpont Morgan. Below this quintet come Sir Basil Zaharoff and His Highness Sir Sayaji Rao III, the Maharaja Gaekwar of Baroda...
Samuel Mather is the country's second largest contributor to community chests. Largest is Senator James Couzens of Pontiac, Mich. Henry Ford gave Detroit's chest nothing this year. But Edsel Bryant Ford did?$115,000. Senator Couzens, chairman of the Detroit chest, topped this with a gift of $120,000, also giving Washington and Pontiac other sums. The Couzens and Ford money, plus the gifts of the seven Fisher brothers ($125,000) and General Motors ($100,000, tax deduction or not) provided the bones of Detroit's latest $3,657,432 campaign...
...make good on the campaign promises of unemployment relief which helped his election. Among other things he: 1) opened booths where 84,000 unemployed registered for work;- 2) got a promise of 25,000 extra part-time jobs from 20 of the city's industrial leaders including Edsel Bryant Ford, Charles T. and Lawrence...
...contributions last week to the city's community fund: Edsel Ford, $130,000; Senator James Couzens, $120,000; the Fisher family, $125,000; General Motors...