Word: forde
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Henry Ford has opened his school at Sudbury. It seems that his aim is much more serious than merely to provide the famous lamb with another opportunity for a whack at higher education. The school is to be an example to all of New England. By its methods and training it will show the great need of manual labor, if Mr. Ford's expectations are fulfilled...
Many years ago, as one may well guess, Henry Ford had a dream with four wheels on it. In 1903 he began to manufacture it; he did not have any cash, so he cajoled some skeptical Detroiters into putting up $28,000 (the only moneys ever invested in the Ford Motor Co.). James Couzens, a Canadian by birth, who was working in a coal yard, scraped up $1,000, added his note for $1,500, bought 25 shares. Two automotive young Dodge brothers (John F. and Horace E.) invested $5,000 apiece. John Gray put up $10,000 but "didn...
...into the affairs of the Bureau of Internal Revenue, made public a report, charged the Treasury Department with laxity in collecting certain income taxes. Secretary Mellon had a lusty counterattack ready, informed Mr. Couzens that he still owed the U. S. Government $10,909,588.08 in taxes on the Ford stock which he sold in 1919. For the last two years, Secretary Mellon and his colleagues in the Treasury Department have been preparing the suit against Mr. Couzens and other onetime Ford stockholders. Last week in the ballroom of the Hotel Statler in Detroit, before the U. S. Court...
...Government contends that the profits from the sale of the (41½%) minority interests in the Ford Motor Co. to Henry and Edsel Ford in 1919 for $100,000,000 were underestimated by the Bureau of Internal Revenue in the Wilson Administration. Hence, the Government wants Mr. Couzens, the Dodge descendants and a half dozen others to dig into their pockets and send back $34,277,253.48 to the U. S. Treasury. The defense attorneys argue that the Government ought to keep its word, having once placed an estimate on their clients' profits. The public will be deprived...
February 16--"Cervantes". Professor J. D. M. Ford...