Word: forde
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Harry M. Blackmer, the fugitive from Denver and from U. S. justice for whom President Coolidge last month signed a special warrant that he might be seized in France and brought home to account for concealing from the Government his profits in Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair's Continental Trading Co. five years ago (TIME, June 4), was still in France last week. He was moving in Paris "disguised"' in slouch hat and horn spectacles. He was, said newsgatherers, dodging newsgatherers, not Government officials. He did not fear extradition, they said, because he could not be extradited unless...
...Ford. Stirred by rumors that he would shut down his plant, redesign his new model, Henry Ford boasted, last week: "Our daily production is now 3,500 increasing by several hundred a day. Our present goal is 10,000 daily. When we will reach it I don't know. What we are doing is building for a long run. I am entirely satisfied with the way things are going...
...told what he would do if he were president: "Get Henry Ford to serve in my cabinet . . . call out the army and navy, yes sir, and I'd close the dance halls and sinks of iniquity . . . jail Nicholas Murray Butler . . . build a brand new Federal Penitentiary. . . ." He achieved the height of his fame by encouraging conflagrations of emotional Pentacostalism instigated in his church by Girl Evangelist Uldine Utley. During this fervent ferment his son, Warren Badenock Straton, had his soul saved and received the gift of tongues...
...Ford...
From Detroit, last week, sailed the motorship Lake Ormoc, carrying hospital equipment, an experimental laboratory, machine shop, refrigerating plant, provisions for two years. Its destination: Santarem, Brazil, a river port 100 miles north of Henry Ford's new 5,000,000 acre rubber plantation. In ten years, Mr. Ford's experts hope the plantation will yield 6,000,000,000 pounds of rubber annually, enough to make 1,000,000,000 Ford tires...