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Both Washington and Detroit agreed Nelson had picked no mere throne-warmer. Kanzler started off as a Detroit lawyer in 1915, moved into the Ford orbit a year later when he and Edsel Ford courted (and later married) sisters. With ack-ack rapidity, Kanzler became Ford Motor Co. production manager, then director, then vice president. From Big Bill Knudsen (who then worked for Ford), he picked up production dope never taught in a law school. But Kanzler was always a lawyer, never a down-in-the-shop production man. So in 1926 he became executive vice president of Ford-controlled...
...Edsel Ford, 48, was operated on in Detroit's Henry Ford Hospital for a stomach ulcer. His condition was reported "satisfactory...
...sugar-rationed England Princess Margaret Rose, who turned eleven, was presented with a birthday cake with no icing. ∙ ∙ Eleanor Roosevelt turned up at East Otis, Mass, wearing cotton stockings. ∙ ∙ Caddies at a Bar Harbor club went on strike, and Edsel Ford had to lug his own golf bag around the course. ∙ ∙ Madeleine Carroll asked the U.S. Government to hand back $9,092.55 in income taxes, claiming 51 little French refugees as dependents...
...Aniline had some distinguished American directors when the Germans set it up in '27. But Walter Clark Teagle, chairman of Standard Oil of N.J. (with which the Farben used to share patents) resigned from the Aniline board last year, and Edgar M. Clark (a Standard Oil man) and Edsel Ford followed suit early this month. As the U.S. got less & less neutral, the Nazi cloud over Aniline looked thicker every...
Married. Benson Ford, 22, son of Edsel Ford; and Edith McNaughton, 21, daughter of a retired vice president of the Cadillac Motor Car Co.; in Christ Chapel (Episcopal), Detroit...