Word: forded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...union policy the two groups are clearly split on two major points. Whereas the Martin group is planning a big push on Henry Ford, the Communist "party line" is against a Ford showdown, feeling that at this time it would be disastrous. On the other hand the Mortimer group believes that in negotiating a new contract with General Motors it would be very helpful to have a series of short, controlled, harassing sit-downs and "quickies." And in the recent Fisher Body outlaw Sit-down (TIME, Nov. 29), the followers of the "party line" fought desperately, if futilely, to have...
...fetish-bound dullard whose innocent pleasure was to pet small, furry things, whose vice was his crazy strength that inevitably killed the things he loved to touch; and George, a wiry, roadwise nomad whose chief job in life was looking after Lennie. The hopeless fairy tale that George (Wallace Ford) tells Lennie (Broderick Crawford) over and over about the little house on the little piece o' land, with an alfalfa patch and rabbits for Lennie to pet, where one day they will live "off the fatta the land" was more than a bedtime story. It was George...
Motoring in his Ford roadster over wet roads from Soestdyk Palace to Amsterdam, The Netherlands, fast-driving Prince Consort Bernhard zu Lippe-Biesterfeld* saw a heavy sand-laden truck shoot out from a side road. Prince Bernhard slammed on his brakes, skidded, collided with the truck. With a slight concussion, a gash across his face, he was hospitalized, sewed up, put to sleep. His first visitor was Mother-in-Law Wilhelmina. Second visitor (against doctor's orders): Wife Juliana, who expects to present him with an heir in January...
...Alaska. Mr. Newman sold many a leading newspaper his Christmas circulation promotion stunt which had as its climax the arrival of Santa Claus on local streets in a jingling sleigh drawn by a reindeer team. With a publicist's acumen, Mr. Newman acclimated his animals to Klaxon horns, Ford motors and shouting Eskimo youngsters while still in Alaska, coaxed them from a moss to alfalfa diet...
...Lerner, editor of The Nation and former lecturer in Government, declared last night in the Ford Hall Forum in Boston that "the rank and file of the two opposing labor camps are forcing their leaders to agree" in order that labor might be united to survive the rigors of the "new depression...