Word: forded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...legal White Knight, extracted testimony that the Kynette squad of 17 "supersnoopers" got its orders directly from the mayor's brother and secretary, Joseph Shaw, a retired naval lieutenant. Lists of the persons spied on were introduced, including Mayor Shaw's last opponent, John Anson Ford, other local politicians and publishers, District Attorney Buron Rogers Fitts himself. Last week the jury handed down its verdict: the two Kynette aides were innocent of intent to commit murder, Captain Kynette guilty...
...following notable drugs may poison the marrow in the bones, decrease the production of white blood cells, may cause death, and should be taken as medicine only with specific instructions from a well-informed doctor, said Dr. Roy Rack-ford Kracke, Atlanta blood specialist: amidopyrine, dinitrophenol, novaldin, antipyrine, sulfanilamide, sedormid, salvarsan...
School District No. 5 in Dearborn, Mich, had a school board election last week. Expecting a close contest, voters turned out in unprecedented numbers. With 266 votes and a record majority, they re-elected an old board member, one Henry Ford...
...Henry Ford attends board meetings four times a year. Dearborn's schools are greatly influenced by his ideas. For not only do he and the Ford Motor Co. pay the major part ($1,075,499) of the city's school taxes, but he has an intense interest in education. Today, Henry Ford has a hand in the schooling, according to his own theories, of some 20,000 U. S. children, about 12,000 of them in Dearborn and the rest in dozens of other schools which he owns or supports. Chief centre of his experiments is Greenfield Village...
...Ford's educational ideas are a curious mixture of the old-fashioned and modern. He calls his schools "the McGuffey type," and they reproduce as much as possible the old little red schoolhouse. No advocate of mass production in education, he likes small schools, small classes, individual instruction. But his schools have no more in common with the McGuffey type of education than the Ford has with a horse. Instead of learning from textbooks, Henry Ford's pupils learn by doing, from trips, planting, harvesting, building. Instead of confining themselves to the three Rs, his schools teach youngsters...