Word: fords
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...turned up so many distinguished kin as Mormon President Spencer W. Kimball? According to the Church News, Kimball is related, at times to the seventh cousin once removed, to John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Franklin Pierce, Chester A. Arthur, Grover Cleveland, Herbert Hoover, Richard M. Nixon, Gerald Ford and an eclectic lot of non-Presidents including John Foster Dulles, George Gallup, Aaron Burr, Nelson A. Rockefeller, Walt Disney and Humphrey Bogart. Though the Church News makes no mention of it, Kimball can boast such a fruitful family tree largely because his grandfather, in the polygamous old days, had 45 wives...
...years Henry Ford II has been the driving force behind the Ford Motor Co. Since he took control of the then ailing corporation as a young man in the 1940s, he has devoted his prodigious energies to helping build Ford into a worldwide auto empire with 495,000 employees and annual sales of $43 billion. Now, at 61, as he prepares to step aside as chief executive, he is finding himself embroiled in a series of bitter legal skirmishes...
...cause of Ford's difficulties is Roy Cohn, the Manhattan lawyer. Since his days as a get-the-dirt investigator for Senator Joseph McCarthy, Cohn has built a deserved reputation as a maverick who relishes the pursuit of the powerful and is as ready to do his pursuing in newsprint as in the courts. For about a year, Cohn has been pressing a suit charging the motor company's boss with a variety of improprieties and seeking a still undetermined amount in damages. Last week Cohn got an assist from a fairly surprising quarter: Henry Ford...
Cohn denies that he has any personal dislike of the company's chairman, but readily admits that "I'm anti-Establishment when it comes to people like Ford." With his great power, Cohn says, Henry Ford "represents an era of American business that supposedly went out of style with the turn of the century." Cohn's suit was brought on behalf of a handful of stockholders. The suit charges, among other things, that Henry Ford, who scarcely needs money: 1) pocketed $2 million from the "highest officials of the Philippines government" in exchange for building a stamping...
...Ford has vehemently denied all the charges, and the suit has had little visible support from the firm's other 335,400 stockholders. At the annual meeting last year, Cohn attempted to shout accusations at Ford, but was frequently booed by other shareholders, many of them present or former company employees...