Word: forded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seeing." Miss Helen Keller has been blessed and deservedly so with invaluable friends such as H. H. Rogers, Alexander Graham Bell, Andrew Carnegie, Dr. Van Dyko, Mark Twain, Phillips Brooks, William James, and the Dowager, Queen of Rumania. She has met many a magnate in America, including Ford and Edison. She has also been to the White House and met most of the presidents of her life-time: Cleveland, Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson, and Coolidge. Before I proceed to the questions I asked, I must mention that her secretary, Miss Thompson, spoiled on her palm every word I uttered. The interview...
Chaired by Carrol B. Reece (R-Tenn.), the committee set out to discover whether such financial giants as the Ford, Rockefeller, and Carnegie Founrations were serving the nation's interests...
Dodd attacked the Ford Foundation for its "dubious staff and its support of Communism and socialist propaganda." One witness, sympathetically questioned by the chairman, attacked the Kinsey Report, financed by a foundation grant, as a force for weakening American morals, and another criticized Gunnar Myrdal's book "An American Dilemma" because it saw too much that is shoddy in our society...
...Hortense Ford arrived at a Ventura (Calif.) reform school when she was 19; her illegitimate daughter Barbara made it when she was 14. After two years in the reformatory, Barbara married, became a "sea gull," i.e., a fleet follower in San Diego. She was convicted of perjury, prostitution, lewd conduct, vagrancy; she had four husbands, three sons. In 1953 she was arrested in a room with Emmett Perkins and Jack Santo, who were suspects in six murder cases. Barbara had a narcotic user's scars on her arms and a new charge on her record: murder. A witness testified...
...with a 7.9% increase to a record $139 million, while food dipped 2.8% to come in second with $129 million. The biggest single U.S. advertiser for the eighth straight year: General Motors, whose ad outlay jumped 13.5% to an alltime high of $37.3 million. The next nine, in order: Ford Motor Co., $17,999,652; Chrysler Corp.,$11,787,596; Colgate-Palmolive...