Word: fording
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...done a thousand times before during the National Labor Relations Board hearings on the Ford Motor Co. case in Detroit (TIME, July 26), Louis J. Colombo Sr., the swart, able Ford counsel, shouted one day last week: "I object." Lawyer Colombo objected to the way the Labor Board counsel was riding a Ford foreman who testified that he fired a man, not for union activity as charged, but for "gazing off into space." But Lawyer Colombo's objection was overruled by Trial Examiner John T. Lindsay. Lawyer Colombo started to say: "I am going to object every time . . ." when...
Next day just before he wound up the turbulent Ford hearings, preparatory to submitting his report to the three-man Labor Board in Washington, Examiner Lindsay gave a little dissertation on the theory of Labor Board hearings, a type of procedure which has baffled many another lawyer beside Mr. Colombo. Said the trial examiner...
...anonymous telephone tip sent police scurrying to the tightly-barred garage operated by one Meyer Luckman in Brooklyn the night of March 3, 1935. Inside, stuffed in a bloody canvas bag in the rear compartment of a Ford coupé, they found the warm, freshly-strangled body of Meyer Luckman's brother-in-law and bookkeeper. Samuel Drukman. Caught in the garage, with blood on hands and clothes, were three men: Meyer Luckman, a nephew Harry Luckman, and an ex-convict employe named Fred Hull...
...Relieved was the rest of the industry last week when Henry Ford took the initiative, boosting prices on certain models $15 to $35. *Republic strike losses may not be over. Suits for $220,000 damages were filed last week against the company and three of its employes by two men wounded and the estate of one man killed in the Massillon massacre and by the estate of another killed in Youngstown...
Married, Norman Selby ("Kid McCoy"), 63, oldtime prizefighter, lately a Ford Motor Company policeman, for the ninth time, to Mrs. Sue Cobb Cowley, 44; in Rushville...