Word: forde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...issue of TIME, under the title "Republicans" on p. 16, your reporter states that when Governor Landon visited Greenfield Village with Henry Ford, "they drove past a little white house with green shutters in which once lived Stephen Foster, composer of Oh! Susanna...
...house Henry Ford has set up in Greenfield Village and labeled the Foster homestead is a very stupid and quite inexcusable fraud...
According to Composer Foster's Biographer John Tasker Howard (Stephen Foster: America's Troubadour), the dwelling at Henry Ford's Greenfield Village was not built when Foster was born in 1826 but erected later on a lot once belonging to Foster's father near the real Foster Homestead. The homestead, since demolished, was, according to best authorities, replaced by the building now called Pittsburgh's Stephen Foster Memorial Home. Nevertheless, the Greenfield Village guidebook still lists its Foster cottage as the Foster birthplace. Says Henry Ford: "There is no doubt of the genuineness...
After the two week break in training following the football game with Yale next Saturday, about 11 more men are expected to report. These gridmen will be led by Capain Gorge Ford and will include such veterans as George Roberts, Russ Allen, and Ralph Pope. A strong Sophomore group will likewise turn out at this time. Austie Harding, captain of last year's undefeated Freshmen, and Win Jameson will be seeking places on the forward line and such stalwarts as Chink Fearon, Charlie Houghton, and Tubber Carstein will try to work into the lineup on the defense...
Harry Houdini (Ehrich Weiss), escape artist extraordinary and implacable foe of spiritualistic fakers, promised his wife that if it were possible for him after death to communicate with her on Earth, he would do so. A code message was agreed on. In New York, a medium named Arthur Ford said that Houdini's spirit had sent him these words: ROSABELLE ANSWER TELL PRAY ANSWER LOOK TELL ANSWER ANSWER TELL. Mrs. Houdini signed a statement that this was in her husband's code, but later seemed un convinced that she had actually heard from the dead magician. Last month...