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...National Air Tour for Edsel B. Ford Reliability Trophy starts from Ford Airport, Dearborn, Mich...
...Historical Village at Dearborn, Mich., last week, Henry Ford and his son and grandsons witnessed the reopening of the school in which Henry Ford studied in 1870. Sitting once more beside Edsel Alexander Ruddiman, his oldtime desk-mate, who is now a learned chemist, Mr. Ford carved his initials on a desktop unreproved by Teacher. Although Mr. Ford is currently engaged in celebrating the Golden Jubilee of the electric light bulb, pupils at the old school will, for sentiment's sake, have to read by the light of oil lamps, be warmed by a wood stove, "just like Henry...
...paint in Paris. He finished her commission after landing and proceeded, with introductions from Sir Joseph Duveen, to accommodate alert Manhattanites. In Philadelphia he painted Mrs. E. T. Stotesbury and all six of the A. Atwater Kents. He went to Detroit to paint Col. Lindbergh at the behest of Edsel Ford, who wanted to give the portrait to the city. But Col. Lindbergh backed out of the engagement lest all U. S. cities make similar demands on his time. In his large Book-Cadillac studio-suite, Painter Chandor stayed at Detroit, painting the prosperous, until last spring when TIME gave...
...plants, that these plants were made to supply cars to the countries in which they were located. He saw no danger of a foreign car invasion. Next came R. I. Roberge, Ford export manager. A peculiar aspect of the Roberge testimony was his insistence that he spoke for Son Edsel Ford, did not know what Father Henry Ford thought about auto tariffs. Asked why Henry Ford had not appeared, Mr. Roberge suprisingly replied that Henry Ford had received no invitation. After these qualifications, Mr. Roberge announced that Edsel Ford was willing to have automobiles on the free list...
When Henry Ford went to Manhattan last week to greet Son Edsel Ford, and his family, arriving from Europe on the Berengaria, a bottle of flashlight powder exploded close by the pier, injured nine persons. No Ford was hurt...