Word: fording
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...goings-on in Detroit last week were in connection with a strike against big, rich Briggs Manufacturing Co., which makes automobile bodies for Chryslers, Plymouths, Dodges, De Sotos, Packards, Lincolns. Because of the strike Chrysler Corp. had to close ten of its plants in Michigan and Indiana, the Lincoln (Ford) plant was closed in Detroit and 70,000 employes were idle, including those of parts suppliers dependent upon the automakers...
Last week U. S. Conciliator James F. Dewey with the help of Ford's Harry Bennett, whose company is a Briggs customer, got hitherto stubborn Briggs executives into a more cooperative frame of mind. Able, amiable Mr. Dewey then succeeded in settling most of the specific grievances which had caused the strike...
...employes to be in the union. Nevertheless he was willing to discuss exclusive recognition of Mr. Mazey's local as a compromise. This he and Mr. Mazey proceeded to do this week, postponing the union shop issue until bodies again are flowing to Chrysler, Ford, et al. Meantime Mr. Martin, having been squeezed out at Briggs, announced that 66,768 fellow secessionists from C. I. O. had voted to affiliate with A. F. of L. His figure was almost as surprising as his war on other unionists. If he actually has that many followers he may give trouble aplenty...
...politician-president of the University of California, who recently turned down a $50,000 bank presidency, gets on well with his. Moreover he runs though not the world's best, the world's biggest university, with 24,000 fulltime students, seven campuses. Minnesota's Guy Stanton Ford, 66, is Sproul's opposite-small, frail, quietly witty, a famed history scholar who favors the theoretical rather than the practical side of politics. His institution comes close to being the most enterprising State university. Five years ago its General College was a bold experiment to provide misfit students...
...Actor Henry Fonda stayed home nights to read up on the part, acted Lincolnesque on the set and off. During the filming he walked on three-inch stilts built into his boots, wore a rubber buildup on his nose and an applied wart on his right cheek. Director John Ford (The Informer) refused to see Fonda without his makeup, refused to let superProducer Darryl F. Zanuck dabble in the job, turned out, as a result, a jim-dandy piece of Lincoln mythology...