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...Ford is not an officer of Ford Motor Co. His only connection with the corporation is his ownership of 58% of the stock and a seat on the board of directors. With him on the board sits his son, President Edsel Bryant Ford, who owns the rest of the stock, and Vice President Peter E. Martin, one of the few survivors of the countless upheavals in Ford management. There is a secretary and assistant treasurer, and an assistant secretary of the corporation, but no other title within the whole Ford organization. Henry Ford does not believe in titles...
Detroit. Artist who has spent the most time with the most success portraying Detroit is a Philadelphian?Charles Sheeler. Commissioned by Edsel Ford in 1927 to do a series of paintings of the Ford River Rouge plant, Painter Sheele turned out a series of meticulous, exact canvases that in black and white reproductions are almost indistinguishable from Photographer Sheeler's excellent camera studies of similar subjects. In spite of objecting to his photographic technique, most critics allow Sheeler a top place among U. S. painters of industrial scenes. Michigan's nearest approach to catching the U. S. scene in paint...
...said Franklin Roosevelt, grinning up from the water, "you and Mrs. Ford are having dinner with us tonight." Thus just a year after General Hugh Johnson had heatedly announced that neither the Ford Motor Co. nor anyone else could safely defy his Blue Eagle, Mr. & Mrs. Edsel Ford were warmly welcomed by the chieftain of the New Deal. To newshawks who clustered around him in the street, Edsel Ford reiterated that the Ford Company had not signed certificates of NRA compliance, reiterated that it was living up 100% to NRA requirements. All was forgiven if not forgotten, for the Government...
...same day the President made public a letter to S. Clay Williams, head of the National Industrial Recovery Board, ordering him to survey the possibility of stabilizing employment in the automobile industry. Said Edsel Ford to reporters: "That is exactly what we believe. Our men are working on an average of 36 hours per week per year. Regular employment should be the goal of every manufacturer...
Ford. In Detroit Edsel Ford received a letter threatening death unless $5,000 was left on the back porch of a home in the city's northeast section. The money was duly left in a candy box. A tenant nearly ruined the case by picking it up by mistake. Soon, however, Edward Lickwala, 20, son of a onetime Ford worker, appeared to offer Federal agents information. He gave more information than he intended. Arrested, he quickly pleaded guilty and was sentenced to ten years in Leavenworth...