Word: fording
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harry Ford Sinclair, No. 10,520 in the Washington, D. C., jail, heard some bad news last week. Already incarcerated for contempt of the Senate, he heard that the U. S. Supreme Court had sustained his six-month sentence for contempt of court. He carried on with his duties in the prison pharmacy, certain in the knowledge that he would spend Christmas and New Year's behind bars...
...Symon's obituary estimate of Thomas Hardy; the first pages of Oswald Spengler's "Decline of the West": The last words of Anatole France; new verse by Amy Lowell, Carl Sandburg, e. e. ("lower case") cummings; contributions from George Saintsbury, Maxim Gorky, Thomas Mann, T. S. Eliot, Ford Madox Hueffer...
Last week Automan Henry Ford got the League of Nations into a predicament and Merchant Edward A. Filene got it out again...
...predicament arose when Mr. Ford asked the League's International Labor Office to collect statistics on real wages in various European countries. Mr. Ford wanted to pay workmen in his foreign plants the same real wages that he pays his U. S. workmen. So he asked the Labor Office to determine what wages he should pay Englishmen, Frenchmen, Russians, Germans, so that they should be on equal terms with each other and with U. S. Ford employes...
Willing was the Labor Office to collect this information-willing, but not able. It had for some time been working on wage statistics, but needed from $20,000 to $30,000 to collect figures on the scale Mr. Ford requested...