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He quit in 1950 and lived on. Proudly, he counted his five great-grandchildren, but most of his friends were gone; he had passed through the dreary years when an old man watches his world die around him. Last year even the Athletics left him; their franchise moved to Kansas...
The biggest concession is in the way G.M. will handle future franchise cancellations. The company is replacing the Dealer Relations Board, composed of top G.M. executives, which was set up in 1938. In its place will sit "an impartial umpire," probably designated by the corporation and the Dealer Council, to...
¶ Buick-Chevrolet-Pontiac Dealer Lee Anderson of Lake Orion, Mich., who complained that the company permitted employees to but cars at a discount for resale, had his facts wrong. Employees could buy only one car a year, had to promise not to sell it until introduction of the next...
¶ Ed Travis Jr., a St. Charles, Mo. Buick, Pontiac and G.M.C. truck dealer, lost his franchise because "he simply did not meet the challenge presented by the current automobile market."
In those days, pro football was a catch-as-catch-can collection of part-time players. Men like George Halas took over the tough job of turning the game into a moneymaking proposition. When the A. E. Staley Starch Products Co. of Decatur, Ill. decided to give up their team...