Word: forded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...least of mankind's fanatic fractions is that vanishing fraternity of motorists who still drive a Model T. Not the kast among them is septuagenarian Ernest A. Franke. a retired baker of Washington, D. C. One day last week Mr. Franke and his 1921 Ford chattered down Pennsylvania Avenue, wheeled into the semicircular White House driveway, and astounded White House police by pausing hard by the Executive Office...
Assured that Henry Ford had not yet arrived, and that citizens' cars could not be parked there, Motorist Franke banged decorously away, returned after a while and again toured the grounds, again missed Mr. Ford...
...moment of Mr. Franke's first appearance on the White House scene, septuagenarian Mr. Ford was trying out Attorney General Homer S. Cummings' bullet-proof Lincoln. With Mr. Ford on a breeze through the tortuous roadways of Rock Creek Park were his son Edsel and two Washington correspondents, Clifford Prevost of the Detroit Free Press and Jay G. Hayden of the Detroit News. Both Mr. Prevost and Mr. Hayden have developed excellent news contacts with Ford Motor Co., and they later were to serve as the only authoritative reporters of a historic two hours in the life...
...Roosevelt were already complaining that the occasion had become uncomfortably historic. According to this somewhat jaundiced view, the President's brother-in-law, Gracie Hall Roosevelt, had bungled at a crucial stage in the Administration's Second Recovery Program. By arranging a White House invitation to Henry Ford, moaned these counselors, this onetime Detroit comptroller had also arranged a White House dramatization for the stiffest and most nonresilient member of the Opposition; had, indeed, obliterated the effects of the friendly pronouncement from SECommissioner John Hanes's Sixteen Businessmen...
...that as it may, the event was legitimately historic. More than any other man, Motorman Ford personifies to millions the triumph of the rugged virtues of the American Way. He had consistently and successfully resisted NRA. He is currently doing battle with the National Labor Relations Board and C. I. O. And for the romantic touch dear to the reading American, this was to be his first meeting with the President since the World War days when Henry Ford manufactured submarine chasers for Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin Roosevelt...