Word: forded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dean Griswold of the Law School, along with 14 other businessmen and educators from across the country, has been named by the Ford Foundation as director of a new organization called "The Fund for the Republic...
...Ford Foundation hopes that such an independent group of distinguished men and women will develop "policies and procedures best adapted to protect these rights in the race of persistent international tension...
...went to work as an apprentice tool & diemaker in Wheeling, W. Va., his home town. Fired by the Wheeling Steel Corp. when he tried to organize a protest against Sunday work, he went to Detroit, where he rose to the skilled and highly paid job of foreman in a Ford tool & die room. Fired again in 1932, he went off on a three-year bicycle trip through Europe and parts of Asia with his brother Victor, now U.A.W. representative in Europe. The Reuthers supplemented their funds with occasional jobs, among them a one-year stint in Russia's Gorky...
...Reuther plunged into union work, and organized a U.A.W. local whose membership grew from 78 to 30,000 in one year. Leader of Detroit's first big sitdown strike at the Kelsey-Hayes Wheel Plant, he also played a major role in the U.A.W.'s unionization of Ford. Reuther's bitterest foes were the U.A.W.'s Communists. He won his first major battle with the Communists in 1946, when he took the U.A.W.'s presidency away from R. J. Thomas, whom the Communists had supported. He clinched the victory in November 1947, when he finally...
...Meeting in Denver, the A.M.A. chose Dr. John Maston Travis, 75, of Jacksonville, Texas, as General Practitioner of the Year. Literally a horse & buggy doctor for eight years before he got his first Ford in 1913, Dr. Travis noted that general practice (as distinct from specializadon) is coming back into fashion. He himself has fathered two specialists...