Word: forde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bill Shallow of Harvard gained third with 151 ft. 8 in. In the Javelin Bert Litman gained first for Harvard. His throw get a new record with 180 ft. 7 1/2 in. His teammates completed the scoring in this event, Fulton Cahners taking second, and Ed Ford third...
...autobiography in which she wrote that she felt a "great responsibility for him." Last week Gracie Hall Roosevelt suddenly found himself paraded across the front pages in the U. S. This was surprising enough but the reason was more so. It was a rumor that he had invited Henry Ford to lunch at the White House. Two days later, even more astonishingly, the rumor was confirmed. Said Henry Ford in Sudbury, Mass.. where he was inspecting his collection of antiques: "I want to give the President a chance to look at somebody who doesn't want anything...
...served to launch the U. S. press on a guessing game. Best guess as to why Gracie Hall Roosevelt-a onetime Comptroller of Detroit, who now spends most of his time in New York-had given the invitation was that the President considered it more tactful to invite Mr. Ford through an emissary than to summon him directly. Having deduced this much-despite rumors that Hall Roosevelt had given the invitation on his own account, thus putting his brother-in-law in the position of being forced to second it-the nation's press spent the rest...
...British colonel. With a gushy American heiress (Loretta Young) tagging along, his four stout sons-Beano (George Sanders), Nosey (David Niven), Stinky (Richard Greene) and Snigglefritz (William Henry) -set out from ancestral Saint John-cum-Leigh (pronounced Sinjin-comely) to un-smirch the escutcheon. Guided by Director John Ford (The Informer, The Lost Patrol), their juvenile, helter-skelter quest roams two hemispheres, seldom loses its bearings. By thrusting Hollywood's dreamiest-eyed glamor girl smack up against a methodical machine-gunning of a screaming mass of helpless men and women, Director Ford shows modern war technique in outlines...
Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass...