Word: fording
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When, after six years, California's $2,000,000 deficit had been turned into an $8,000,000 surplus, Budgeteer Neylan had to borrow $1,000 to move his family back to San Francisco where he began practicing law. His first partner was Aaron Sapiro, who silenced Henry Ford's attacks on Jews. After a year he opened his own office, got as his first client Zellerbach Paper Co. which he had lashed unmercifully as Chairman of the Board of Control. Because he knew how to use them, power and wealth gravitated to hard-fighting John Francis Neylan...
Though all the stock of Ford Motor Co. is owned by Father Henry and Son Edsel, there are still numerous ways of investing in the most magical name in motordom. Frenchmen speculate in Ford, Société Anonyme, Germans in Ford Motor Co. A. G., Spaniards in Ford Motor Iberica Dutchmen in N. V. Nederlandsche Ford Automobielfabriek. In the U. S. there are two Ford stocks traded on the New York Curb Exchange-Ford Motor Co. of Canada and Ford. Motor Co., Ltd., the British unit whose ? shares are bought & sold as "depositary certificates...
...panel including four Harvard professors will sit as a tribunal Thursday evening in a coronor's inquest to determine the murderer of democracy, alleged to be dead although unaware of it. The satire is the Ford Hall Forum's "annual impertinence" given at the banquet which closes its season. The chief guests will be President Conant and Senator George W. Norris of Nebraska, whom the Forum terms "by practically unanimous consent, the noblest character in the public life of America...
...special vote of the Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports, William A. Smith '36, winner of the 165 pound title at the Eastern Intercollegiates, was awarded a major "H" for his victory. Other undergraduates who were honored with major "H's" were Richard Ford '36, Edward E. Langenau '35, and Webster F. Williams, Jr. '35, who won the Epee Team Championship at the Intercollegiates, and German G. Glidden '36, who was the winner of the Intercollegiate Squash Championship...
Addressing to America a stirring appeal to save Europe and herself by turning to the principles of socialism, Harold J. Laski, professor of Political Science at the University of London and onetime Harvard Lecturer on Government, in turn inspired, amused, and enlightened a capacity audience in Ford Hall Forum last night...