Word: forde
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Complaints before the Federal Radio Commission call WHAP "the most virulent agency for anti-Catholic and anti-Jewish propaganda of the country." Mrs. Stetson's secretary and director of WHAP, one Franklin Ford, calls it "America's Protestant Broadcasting Station." Other heterodox stations are Mrs. Aimee Semple McPherson's KFSG at Los Angeles, Judge Joseph Frederick Rutherford's WBBR at Manhattan, Wilbur Glenn Voliva's WCBD at Zion City...
Perhaps Colonel Green does have strange whims?most wealthy men with scientific inclinations are considered "queer" by their neIghbors. But, more likely, Colonel Green's newest whim will make him a patron of U. S. aviation as famed as Rodman Wanamaker, Raymond Orteig, Daniel Guggenheim, Henry & Edsel Ford...
Retraction. Thus Mr. Ford, handsome in the extent of his apologies, followed up his general apologies to all Jews a fortnight ago (TIME, July 18) by this particular apology to Lawyer Sapiro. The gist of this retraction...
...Henry Ford . . . deprecates greatly that any facts that were published in a periodical so closely associated with his name in the minds of the public should be untrue...
Winging out of the edge of a storm that had buffeted and bounced them all the way from Grand Rapids, 13 commercial airplanes of 14 that had started three weeks before, snored down across the finish line of the third National Reliability Tour into Ford Airport, Detroit. First to cross the line was a Pitcairn Mailwing. Four seconds later came Pilot Eddie Stinson of Detroit, with seven passengers in a cabined monoplane of his own design. Of the merit points awarded for keeping to schedule, not having accidents, fuel economy, etc.-he had 2,000 more than any other contestant...