Word: fording
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Henry Ford, who knows about motorcars, informed a group of summer campers near Detroit: "I believe those three submarine disasters were caused by sabotage. It is all a scheme by financial war makers to get this country into war. Of course they'll blame Germany but I don't think Germany is responsible. The real truth is that wars are over with, and the financial war makers don't know...
...busy mining district, picked up a sax player or so, a trumpeter, a trombonist, soon had ten players. Soon the burgeoning Pennsylvanians were on the road, on the air, in the movies for good and plenty. Their biggest year was 1936, when they were collecting $13,600 weekly for Ford broadcasts, as much and more weekly for theatre work...
...attendance would improve if all parishioners would bring their guests as Mr. Roosevelt did, the King shed his necktie, ate hot dogs, drank beer (Ruppert's) at a "dream cottage" picnic, photographed the Indian storyteller and singer who performed. Squire Roosevelt whizzed the Royal pair around in his Ford with manual brakes and gearshift, giving Scotland Yard palpitations. He and the King had another swim. By this time the Roosevelts had developed a father-&-motherly feeling towards this nice young couple ("Very, very delightful people," was the President's authorized phrase), whom they were equipped to entertain...
...afternoon drifts by. A bull session. A game of poker. A set of tennis. Dinner. The Vag sets out on a cruise to find some fellow freedmen. A Ford comes whipping by, top down, boys perched on the hood. Vag lets out a war-whoop. Brakes jam and squeal. "Hey, where you goin...
Edmond J. Ford...