Word: forded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Greatly disappointed by the Roosevelt jokes, near-jokes and alleged jokes sent in by TIME'S readers, TIME has been forced to the conclusion that the Roosevelt story is a different kettle of fish from the old Ford story. There was always an implicit affection or admiration in the Tin Lizzie jokes: but there is nearly always an undercurrent of hatred in the stories about Franklin Roosevelt. Unwilling to foster that feeling, TIME herewith declares a moratorium on such Rooseveltiana...
During the past three years. Ford Motor Co., although its big River Rouge plant remains unorganized, has not been able to avoid all contact with organized labor. As local unions of the United Automobile Workers of America established contact with Ford management in regional assembly plants, potent Personnel Director Harry H. Bennett announced in Detroit that Ford's basic labor policy had not changed. Last week Mr. Bennett had occasion to say this again...
...plain Ford sedan disgorged Mr. Ford at the door of the company's administration building in Dearborn. He loped into Mr. Bennett's office and called out: "Hello, boys!" Flushed and grinning, who should pop up and shake hands but Homer Martin, president of U.A.W. Then for five minutes Mr. Martin had the fun of talking with the one automaker whom U.A.W. has not yet cracked...
...subject of Laski's addresses, which will come October 28, November 4, and November 18, is "Crisis in Political Philosophy." He is at present on leave from the London School of Economics and this fall has delivered speeches at Columbia, Dartmouth and the Ford Hall Forum...
...Powys and Ford belong to the same genus of bookworm, their appetites differ in numerous details. Ford Madox Ford, "an old man mad about writing," prefers his classical diet served with French sauce ("the Mediterranean as against the Nordic tradition"); his main concern is with "fine"' writing, literary form. Lively, rambling, witty, he is at his best in picking out single quotations; at his worst when he strays beyond "pure" literature, as when he declares Dostoyevsky to be "the greatest single influence on the world of today...