Word: forde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...doubt of Mr. Ford's post-visit attitude toward the New Deal remained, he would have removed it by his subsequent performances in New York. This, too, was a rare occasion for him. Not since 1932, when he boomed Herbert Hoover for reelection, had Henry Ford delivered a formal address, and he was in New York to address the Bureau of Advertising of the American Newspaper Publishers Association. Beforehand, he again yielded to clamorous newsmen and received them in a private dining room at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel...
Someone remarked that Mr. Ford seemed to have enjoyed his White House visit. Said Mr. Ford: "You never heard me say anything against him, did you? What's the use, what's the use? He's like all the rest of us, trying to do the best he can. Don't you think...
...another turn in the interchange, Mr. Ford volunteered: "When we wake up and go to work, we shall be beginning to approach civilization...
...questioners asked, and Mr. Ford refused, comment upon a copyrighted series of Ford interviews in the Boston Evening American which included a complimentary reference to Vice President Garner, another to the Federal debt...
That night the Fords and Mr. Cameron repaired to the Hotel Waldorf-Astoria, where a host of sympathetic publishers expected sympathetic and telling words. Samuel Emory Thomason, publisher of Chicago's lone pro-New Deal newspaper, the tabloid Daily Times, proudly introduced "the epitome of American business ... a great man and a great American, Mr. Henry Ford of Dearborn, Mich...