Word: fording
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...onetime (1896-97) welterweight champion of the world; to Mrs. Sue Cobb Cowley, 43, cousin of Humorist Irvin S. Cobb; in Detroit. This will be his ninth marriage. In 1933 Selby was paroled from San Quentin Penitentiary in the custody of Harry Bennett, personnel director of Ford Motors Co., after serving seven years for the murder of his mistress. This year he was given a full pardon, is now head of Ford's Garden Department, in charge of 15,000 employes' gardens...
Then the Labor Board started to draw from a long procession of onetime Ford employes their story of Fordism v. Unionism. In as well as out of the River Rouge plant, Mr. Bennett's service men were the villains. They could be spotted, said the witness, by their broken noses, cauliflower ears and the fact that they never worked, only watched. One of their jobs was to enforce Ford's rigid rule against talking on the job. Another was to see that the men maintained their pace. Witness after witness told how he had been suddenly taken from...
...play to this Federal hearing, nonetheless a significant feature of labor-law-employer relations, developed in Detroit last week when Common Pleas Judge Ralph W. Liddy ordered eight Ford "service" men held for trial for assault and battery during the Battle of the overpass. Included was Harry Bennett's subhead of the Ford service department Everett Moore. None sent to trial was Italian...
...Immediately after the Bennet breakfast, Henry Ford announced that while his minimum wage is $6 per day, the average for all Ford workers...
...speechmaking and fun. Will Loomis of the La Grange 111. Citizen helped start things with the topic. "Where do we go from here?'" Then the editors were shown a cooking school film entitled The Bride Wakes Up and heard from the folksy syndicate poet. Edgar A. Guest. Ford Motor Co. scheduled a lunch at Dearborn Inn, a trip through Greenfield Village and a speech by its official spokesman, William J. Cameron. General Motors Corp. offered a tour of its Pontiac plant and a free Pontiac to the editor who would write and publish the best story about Michigan...