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Last week 86 eminent persons including Edsel Ford, John Hays Hammond, William Green, Howard Earle Coffin, August Heckscher, Clark Howell, Henry Stevens, Edward F. Hutton, William Vincent Griffin, Jesse Isidor Straus and Elon Huntington Hooker petitioned President Hoover to revive the Council of National Defense. They argued that a dictatorship was the way out of Depression. President Hoover promptly rejected their request. He felt that the C. 0. N. D. was only an advisory war body and that the Cabinet, Federal Reserve Board, Farm Board and Reconstruction Finance Corp. were now "the most effective economic council that could be devised...
...caused by preparing for 1932 models. Last week Automotive Daily News took the nebulous Ford figures, brewed from them the fact that on its Model A the company made $11,250,459 plus any dividends paid to the three holders of its 172,645 shares-Mr. & Mrs. Ford and Edsel Ford...
...Randolph Hearst, gave $201,000 to establish the National Cathedral School for Girls. Givers of $100,000 or more include Andrew William Mellon, his brother Richard, the late Ambassador to France Henry White, Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, the late Percy R. Pyne. Of $50,000 or more: Henry and Edsel Ford, the late Samuel Mather of Cleveland and his half-brother William, John Hays Hammond, Mrs. Gibson Fahnestock, the late William Amory Gardiner...
...other corporations does the chairmanship carry real weight and executive power. American Telephone & Telegraph, The Texas Corp. and many another large company has no chairman, the president presiding at directors' meetings. When Ford Motor Co.'s three directors meet, President Edsel Bryant Ford pre sides over his father and one Peter E. Martin...
...legs. Mr. Roosevelt went there first in 1924. After churning about in the pool, he found that his leg muscles felt a little stronger. Thereafter Warm Springs became his great hobby. He spent a large part of his personal fortune on developing the place into a sanatorium. Edsel Ford gave an enclosed pool, others contributed to make Warm Springs a permanent institution. Swimming at Warm Springs several months each year and special exercises at Albany have made it possible for the Governor to walk 100 ft. or so with braces and canes. When standing at crowded public functions, he still...