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Word: fording (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...studio and his chateau are jammed full of canvases which he will not sell. Even so, Dealers Rosenberg, et al., have occasionally been so hard put to it to keep from being flooded with Picassos that a wit once suggested, as a solution, a tie-up with the Citroen (Ford of France) Motor Company: "A Picasso with every Citroen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Art's Acrobat | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

...celebrate their new opposition, Presidents Thomas & Martin last week debated whether Harry Bennett, personnel director of Ford Motor Co., contributed to U. A. W.'s split by dangling a phoney agreement in front of Homer Martin. Said Mr. Bennett, at last speaking for himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Two Presidents | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

...offered to give Martin a list of all the employes of the Ford company and told him to go ahead and organize them if he could. I told him I didn't think he could make it, but he was welcome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Two Presidents | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

...Door"; you term the petition "ill-timed and misdirected;" and finally you suggest "a more constructive line" than "petitioning in behalf of a practically deceased Spanish Republic." Your attitude, in short, is that "It's too late." Let Professor Rupert Emerson answer you (I quote from his address at Ford Hall Friday evening...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

Last week Ward Culver, attorney for an organization of Ford workers called the Liberty Legion of America, Inc., announced its dissolution "as an independent labor organization" and attributed the action to talks between Martin & Bennett. Garrulous Homer Martin was said to have gushed in private that Ford would be glad to set him up at the head of a union, perhaps confined to Ford workers and unaffiliated with C. I. O. Henceforth Mr. Harry Bennett, whether he made himself so or was made so by the factionalists. may have to be taken into account as a big figure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Showdown | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

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