Word: forde
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...half his age, and reported by one of the most competent newspaper men in Washington to be the best poker player in either House of Congress. He is everybody's friend. His colleagues call him Charlie. His constituents swear by him as they would swear by a trusted Ford or a well-tried almanac. He knows an amazing number of them personally. Twenty years ago this month, when he had already served fourteen years in Congress, he was quoted in the New York Sun as saying that he never forgot a name, that he never failed to shake a hand...
...oppressive forces of capitalism have won another victory over the defenders of man's independence, and that in the enemy's own country. For the government of Soviet Russia has begun negotiations with Henry Ford looking towards the establishment of a Ford factory in the land of the Bolsheviks. To be sure, it is only after the Soviets had tried to produce tractors on their own account from-pirated plans, but when these were discovered to cost six times as much as American product and in addition failed to run, they capitulated to the rival system...
...Ford, who has long been held up by the Bolsheviks as the perfect example of the American capitalist and exploiter of labor, is to be permitted to practice his nefarious work in the midst of a socialistic regime, it will be difficult for the Russians to deny much longer that Socialism is not entirely practical. Already the peasants have been granted practical ownership of their farms and produce, and now that its principles are to be abandoned in the factories as well, little remains but a few catchwords of Karl Marx and a rapidly fading shadow of that Utopia...
Died. James Lauren Ford, 73, famed onetime literary critic of the old New York Herald, humorist, author; in Bayshore...
Harry Brooks, chief test pilot of the Stout-Ford Airplane Co., carrier of Mrs. Evangeline Lodge Lindbergh to Mexico, plunged into the sea off the coast of Melbourne, Fla., in a "flivver" plane of his own design. The wreckage was found afloat next day, but of Pilot Brooks there was no trace. He had hoped to see the day when his air "flivvers" would be in the hands of millions...