Word: forded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ambassador to Peking-Vasily Kuznetsov, newly named a deputy foreign minister, and member of last fall's shortlived, 36-man Soviet Presidium. A bright star of Malenkov's generation (52) who headed the Soviet trade-union movement until recently, Kuznetsov once punched a time clock at Ford's River Rouge plant (for a brief period in 1932), got an engineering degree at Carnegie Tech, returned to the U.S. in 1945 at the head of a factory-touring delegation of Russian union bigwigs. He was once said to be "pro-American," but many silly things were said...
...Master Salesman. In 1934 he turned his roving eye toward Auto-Lite, which had been making ignition parts ever since 1911 and had more than 50% of the business. But Auto-Lite had lost Henry ford, its biggest single customer, because Henry decided to make his own electric parts. Auto-Lite was also in bad repute because of a bitter strike in which trigger-happy Ohio national guardsmen shot and killed two strikers and wounded five others. Martin was able to talk Auto-Lite's founder, the late Clem Mininger, into a 2½-for-one swap of Moto...
...Gift of the Week: $15 million set aside by the Ford Foundation as a "Fund for the Republic." Headed by Paul G. Hoffman, retiring president of the foundation fund will sponsor studies of restrictions and assaults on academic freedom due process and equal protection under law, protection of minority rights, censorship, boycotting and blacklisting by private groups, and guilt by association, said the fund's directors: "We see a pressing need for a clear statement in contemporary terms of the legacy of American liberty. We propose to help restore respectability to individual freedom...
Harvard is tenth among the nation's universities in producing scholars, the Ford Foundation announced yesterday...
...this ostrich policy can't go on forever. Some issues will have to be met squarely and publicly. For one thing, Commissioner Ford Frick will have to rule on the propriety of having a college team put smack into a major league farm system. Will this violate the restrictions on dealing with amateurs? What minor league classification will Harvard be put into? Will Harvard players be subject to the annual player draft? Can the Cards send us players on option? Can they step in and shuffle the team's personnel if they aren't satisfied with its performance...