Word: forde
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...perfectly legitimate, Mr. Grenfell was reduced to making a highly technical attack. He objected to the fact that Sir John Thomas Davies, who is the Director of the Suez Canal Co. and therefore associated with His Majesty's Government, is announced as a Director of the new British Ford...
Every "reorganization" intelligent was M.P. knew that "merger" or this a move to threaten British motor makers; but simply an attempt by Mr. Ford to enhance the appeal of his "Made in England" motor cars by admitting insular Britons to a share in Ford profits. None the less petulant M.P.'s raised a rumpus...
Suave Edward Charles Grenfell, M.P. from the City of London, and a partner of John Pierpont Morgan (Morgan, Grenfell & Co., London), led the House of Commons' attack on last week's British issue of Ford Motor Ltd. stock...
With scathing and at times impressive innuendo, Banker Grenfell sought to convince the House that there was something suspicious or improper in the fact that Sir John Davies would simultaneously receive Ford dollars and enjoy proximity to the British Government...
...Because the reorganized Ford Motor Co. Ltd. of England will give employment to thousands of Britons who need jobs badly, the Labor Party rallied last week to defend Motor Man Ford from the criticisms of Banker Grenfell M.P. Since Fords are everywhere rivaled by General Motor's products; and since J.P. Morgan & Co. of Manhattan have helped to finance General Motors, the Laborites thought that they saw a shrewd opening to flay London's Grenfell M.P. for having flayed Motor Man Ford in the House of Commons...