Word: forded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...snubbed Wyndham Mortimer, veteran first vice president and leader of the opposition, by upping young Richard Frankensteen, hero of the "Battle of the Overpass" at the Ford plait, to a new job as assistant president. He ordered Robert Travis transferred from the powerful Flint (Mich.) local, prepared to split that local's 30,000 members into five groups. He fired Frank Winn, U.A.W.'s able press agent. He fired an organizer who called a strike vote in a General Motors plant. By this time it was apparent that President Martin's long-awaited purge was in full...
...which called for an unemployment census, appropriated $5,000,000 and left the kind of job to be done up to the New Deal. Last month, Franklin Delano Roosevelt picked the man for the job. He was 49-year-old "Liberal Republican" President John D. Biggers, of Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co., whose "enlightened labor policies" brought him to Presidential notice. Last week, Mr. Biggers' plans for his census were complete...
...label "Economic Royalists." To take emotionalism and prejudice out of labels, Analyst Miller proposes to study what the name means, whether it is truly applied, who uses it, why. Marked for early treatment by the institute are the Propagandas swirling about Supreme Court Justice Hugo L. Black, Henry Ford Tom Mercer Girdler, the C. I. O, Spain...
...lagging behind the Plan, Old Bolshevik Dybets recently made supreme and successful efforts to raise production at Russia's largest motor works, the Molotov Plant at Gorky. It is now nearly up to planned production, is turning out daily 400 trucks and 82 little sedans of 4-cylinder Ford type. But while this substantial success at the Molotov Plant may please and flatter Soviet Premier Molotov, for whom the factory was named, Soviet Dictator Stalin has been anything but pleased by such results as Old Bolshevik Dybets has been able to achieve at the Stalin Plant in Moscow. This...
...audiences; the panning of Montparnasse gold has been largely left to the more journalistically-minded. Third in the authentic train, Jimmy Charters' narrative would be condemned forthwith as a rehashing of minor and well-chewed-over material-the renamings of expatriate celebrities (Harold Stearns, Nancy Cunard, Homer Bevans, Ford Madox Ford), the retelling of the pranks, suicides, brawls that made up the life of the Quarter-were it not for the fact that Jimmy was and is a barman, and proud...