Word: fording
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thomas Nelson Perkins '91, Senior Member of the Corporation, will represent President Conant and the Corporation at the festival. The faculty will be represented by Kenneth B. Murdock '16, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Professor J. D. M. Ford. Mr. Perkins will say a few words of greeting on behalf of the University. President Conant will be in New Jersey on Saturday, to deliver an address at the Stevens Institute of Technology...
...made appropriate welcoming remarks, nor Edward F. Dunne, onetime Governor of Illinois, whom President Roosevelt had appointed the Fair's new U. S. Commissioner, nor the President himself, whose talking picture image addressed the first night gathering and switched on the lights. The Big Man was Henry Ford. Last year Mr. Ford snubbed the Fair entirely...
...left to Chrysler, General Motors et al. the job of representing the U. S. automobile industry. This year the Ford Building dwarfs its competitors' exhibits, cost $,.000,000, included the world's largest photomural (600 ft. by 20 ft.), an outdoor show called "Roadways of the World," performances by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra four hours a day for twelve weeks. Lean, gaunt Henry Ford was on hand in shirtsleeves the opening day to whip his spectacle into working order. He noticed a 10-year-old peering at the mechanical exhibits, volunteered to conduct him and other moppets through...
...Ford sedan drove up to the Gettysburg, Pa. railroad station, and out stepped Henry Ford to stretch his legs. Station hawker: "Like to buy a history of the Battle of Gettysburg? Only a quarter." Mr. Ford: "Well, I know a great deal about that battle, but I'll take one." He fumbled for a coin, smiled, added: "We'll have to wait for my secretary. I haven't any money...
Perhaps it was not meant to take the spotlight off Henry Ford's enormous new building at Chicago's Century of Progress but such was certainly the effect of a party given by General Motors' Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr. on the eve of last week's Fair opening (see p. 12). To the General Motors Building he invited an army of U. S. leaders for a prophetic symposium on "Industrial Progress in the Next Century." What some of the guests saw ahead...