Word: fording
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Owner. No less sensational than the career of Cavalcade has been that of his owner, Mrs. Isabel Cleves Dodge Sloane. Her father was John F. Dodge who worked for Henry Ford at $25 a week, later founded, with his brother Horace, the automobile business that was sold for $146,000,000 in 1925. When he died in 1922, John Dodge cut off his son John Duval Dodge with $150 a month for eloping with his highschool sweetheart at 20. To daughter Isabel he left more. Educated at Detroit's Liggett School, she went into the Social Register in 1921 when...
Less fortunate last week were other businessmen who did not have such potent Senators to fight for them. In New York an automobile dealer who sold a Ford for $50 below list price was fined $500. When he refused to pay, he was sentenced to jail for three months under a State law to supplement NRA regulations. Under another State law a grocer who sold bottles of milk at 3¢ below the list price was also convicted, made liable to a $200 fine, six months in jail or both...
...years ago Dr. Brown partly exposed the remains of two sauropods, was halted by lack of funds. This year Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair, who uses a dinosaur trademark to dramatize the age of his petroleum beds, offered to finance another expedition. Last month Dr. Brown bared no less than eight skeletons of the ancient monsters. Last fortnight he uncovered four more. The twelve skeletons are apparently of a hitherto unknown species. In an exultant but anxious message to the Museum last week Dr. Brown reported the welter of bones so tangled that none could be moved until charts and photographs...
Birthdays. George Bernard Shaw, 78; Col. Edward Mandell House, 76; Henry Ford, 71; Don Marquis, 56; Benito Mussolini, 51; Hubert Prior ("Rudy") Vallee...
...STRANGLED WITNESS&151;Leslie Ford&151;Farrar & Rinehart ($2). Lobbying and espionage in Washington prove lethal as well as lucrative. The murder of the blonde young widow was solved only because Col. Primrose remembered odors and an old custom...