Word: fording
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...onetime Baptist minister in Kansas City helped organize U. A. W. as an A. F. of L. union. In 1936 he took it into C. I. O. In 1937 he fought and won a bitter strike with General Motors, signed up that giant, and all motormakers except Henry Ford. In 1938, he quarreled with his co-founders and lieutenants, and his union of 375,000 men (third largest in C. I. O.) was saved from falling apart only when John L. Lewis practically took control of it. Last week Homer Martin upset this much-joggled applecart...
...executive board session which erupted last week was called primarily to demand from Homer Martin a report on what he and Harry Bennett, personnel director of Ford Motor Co., were up to together in recent meetings (TIME. Nov. 23, et ante). The Mortimer-Frankensteen faction this week asked a circuit court in Detroit to restrain Homer Martin from consummating an "illegal conspiracy" with Ford "to disrupt the union and establish a company-dominated fake. . . .:' Messrs. Frankensteen and Mortimer suspected that a deal was in the making whereby canny Mr. Bennett would deliver 100,000-odd Ford workers (and union...
...John Ford, the director of "The Informer" and specialist in fog effects, has made a rather exciting adventure story out of "Submarine Patrol," celluloid epic of the U-boat chasing "splinter fleet." If you can sink back into plush upholstery, forgetting the tremendous bellows of Hollywood publicity that are building up Nancy Kelly into stardom and the sweet simplicity of sturdy Richard Greene, you may enjoy the fine technical effects (especially the fog) of this bloodless movie. The film's makers have had to go afield from the old love-interest, which is a pretty wet gag in Hollywood...
Edward Andrews, as Lennie, is convincing in a hardworking way, and Guy Robertson, as George, Lennie's guiding hand, ably succeeds to Wallace Ford's performance in the original. Claire Luce, the only woman in the play, gives more of an impression of small town degeneracy than she does of earthy crudity, but her portrayal is excellent in its contribution to the suspense. John Hamilton, Thomas Findlay, and Lester Damon are admirable in the all-important supporting parts...
Helen Jepson, Wilfred Pelletier (Sun. 9 p. m. CBS), Metropolitan Opera soprano and conductor, in an hour of music dedicated to Ford cars and the memory of Poet Robert Burns...