Word: fording
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...board at Crystal Falls discovered that his absentee ballot was improperly witnessed. The second New Deal defeat was that one of the scant 23 Republicans now in the U. S. Senate definitely lost his chance of returning there. He was James Couzens, who made his millions as a onetime Ford partner and his reputation for independence as a longtime (since 1922) Senator...
Last week even readers with no great sentiment for Wall Street's old bulls felt the poignancy of these headlines. In 1886, when Henry Ford was sawing wood on his father's farm, William Crapo Durant was introducing mass production to the buggy business. What passed for Vision in those days was astigmatism to Durant. He crashed the gas buggy business in 1904 by taking over Buick; in 1908 he combined Buick, Oakland and Oldsmobile into General Motors. When Lee. Higginson and the Seligmans manipulated him out of it, he went after Ford with Chevrolet, in which...
...Brack athletic field was filled with citizens who overflowed the bleachers, stood on the baseball diamond. On a platform draped with flags sat the guest of honor, surrounded by friends and microphones. Over a national hookup flowed the public voices of Lowell Thomas, Ford Bond, John B. Kennedy-a battery of radio talent extolling Mr. Sheldon's 35 years as boss of Allegheny. Civic representatives spoke in praise of Mr. Sheldon's benefactions. Telegrams and letters of congratulations were read from Weirton Steel's Ernest Tener Weir, Bethlehem Steel's Charles Michael Schwab, Pennsylvania Railroad...
Crowther O'Dell outfit: Ends, Smith and Green; tackles, Schmidt and Spring; guards, Klein and Nee; center, Fearon; backs, Oakes, Ford, Boston and Watt...
...Stuart, George Ford, Ralph Pope, Arthur Oakes and Austin Harding will also be heard from before the final line-up has crystalized...