Word: fording
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Someone in Washington with a memory for faces was startled. Whisperings were started. Other memories, joggled, also led to recognition. Soon the Capital was rife with rumors that Harry Ford Sinclair, convict in the District of Columbia Jail, was riding through the streets in a motor car. The jail officials were questioned. They admitted that for two months Convict Sinclair, prison pharmacist, had been detailed to accompany the jail physicians to the city wharfs to attend prisoners working there...
...Mayor Hague's enemies clacked. He had, they said again, transferred his wealth to England where he has a house (TIME, May 27). He would, they predicted, never return to the U. S. to risk the outcome of a U. S. Supreme Court verdict such as Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair received for refusing to answer the U. S. Senate. But he said: "I'll be back this fall. . . . I'll never retire from politics...
Code Fought. Never does prudent Motorman Henry Ford differ openly with the Chief Executive of a land where he is selling cars. All the same a large extension of the Ford Assembly Plant in Mexico City is not being proceeded with. Scare-heads in the Mexican Press declared last week that if the Fortes Gil Labor Code is enacted Senor Ford is resolved to pay off all his Mexican assemblers, keeping only a sales and service force in the field...
...Henry Ford, of booze-dripping Detroit, in an article for the current Pictorial Review, announced: "If booze ever comes back to the United States I am through with manufacturing...
...Ford last week bought for a reputed price of $10,000 the 200-acre Vaucluse gold mine in Orange County, Va., never profitably worked since pre-Civil War days...