Word: forded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ford's arrival in Washington last week was ruggedly simple. His wife, with whom he recently celebrated his golden wedding anniversary, was using his private car, Glen Ridge, in Massachusetts, and at 8:40 a. m. the Guest of the Day stepped from a Pullman compartment into Washington's Union Station. In his wake was his son Edsel. Awaiting them was a sole and unofficial host. Major H. M. Cunningham, superintendent of the Ford assembly plant alongside the Potomac in nearby Alexandria, Va. In Major Cunningham's Lincoln, the party purred past the Alexandria home of John...
First out at the White House door was hatless Edsel Ford. Behind trotted stooped but spry Henry Ford and Publicist William J. Cameron who usually speaks for Henry Ford and usually is at hand on those rare occasions when Mr. Ford speaks for himself. A throng of newsmen and Government clerks, idly curious during lunch hour, had been given to understand that Hosts Franklin & G. Hall Roosevelt and Federal Reserve Board Chairman Marriner S. Eccles would lunch with the Fords on the secluded terrace at the rear of the White House. But the party was shifted inside to the family...
What passed between Franklin Roosevelt and Henry Ford, no man present would say for quotation. It was clear, however, that the meeting was not so historic as to have caused any great rapprochement between Messrs. Ford & Roosevelt. In fact, it seemed to have had no point at all. When Mr. Ford emerged at 2:55 p. m., he b-r-r-d gently at hungry newshawks and hopped into the Lincoln. Cried a reporter: "Did you have a pleasant visit?" Said Mr. Ford: "Sure...
Said Mr. Eccles, an original proponent of the spending program: "Mr. Ford didn't clash with me. I guess he said he didn't agree, and shook his head in dissent." Said Hall Roosevelt: "There was nothing that smacked of commercialism in any way. ... In fact, it reminded me very much of a family conversation at Wayside...
Enjoined to silence about the precise discussions, White House mouthpieces assiduously cultivated the impression that Mr. Ford had heard Chairman Eccles read off a prepared apologia for the spending spurt, had said little about it, had in general been about as talkative as a clam. Whatever he said to the President, canny Mr. Ford spoke his mind to Correspondents Prevost and Hayden on the way to New York. On his mind, if not on his tongue at the White House, were these appraisals of Franklin Roosevelt and of Roosevelt policy...