Word: fording
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just as George Ford played a prominent part in the only other loss to date, Fred Mosely, another former captain and ace, was largely responsible for repulsing his former teammates...
Reaction of Ford Personnel Head Harry Bennett to the Board's report was instantaneous: "The N. L. R. B. decision sounds like a page out of the United Automobile Worker [union newspaper]. It's not only offensive but ridiculous. Only the employes who work for the Ford Motor Co. can know how ridiculous it is." On the Board's order to reinstate 29 workers with back pay, the Bennett comment was: "They'll have an awful fight over that one. We won't take those men back." On the Board's order to post...
After last week's decision the next move is up to the Labor Board, which at the expiration of the ten-day grace period will presumably apply to the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals for an enforcing order, as provided by the Wagner Act. Then Henry Ford can start a legal battle against the Board which he may carry to the Supreme Court if necessary. The company announced at week's end that it would retain able Lawyer Frederick Wood of Manhattan, who contributed to the downfall of NRA as defense counsel in the Schechter ("sick chicken...
...Ford himself had nothing to say last week, nor did Son Edsel, although the arrival of the decision made him three-quarters of an hour late to the Detroit combined performance of the Yale Dramatic Club and Whiffenpoof songsters.* Elated U. A. W. President Homer Martin dashed off a wire to Harry Bennett asking for conference. Said Mr. Martin: "You need not fear a conference of this sort. We do not believe in force or violence, as you evidently do." As translated by reporters into printable English, tough Mr. Bennett's comment was "Phooey...
...Edsel Ford's Son Henry II is a Yale sophomore...