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...never had much time for music, or which was left out of cultural shindigs in the old days, now sits on its hands. The Symphony's current drive for funds brought $150 from Chrysler executives, some $500 from 30 General Motors men, including $250 from President William S. Knudsen. Ford Motors pays $19,500 to the orchestra, which masquerades as the Ford Symphony on the radio...
That victory for either side in such an intra-Labor war is defeat for both sides, G. M.'s President William S. Knudsen promptly demonstrated. "The corporation is and at all times has been prepared to bargain with duly authorized representatives of the employes," said the big motor-maker who was the first to sign up with C. I. O.'s union in 1937. "What it cannot do is to decide quarrels as between contending factions." In eleven plants, where both C. I. O. and Martin claim jurisdiction, G. M. will deal with neither. In 48, whether...
...Crown Prince Frederik and Princess Ingrid (see p. 11) visited the Ford factory in Detroit, where the Princess admired a Mercury rolling down the assembly line. "It's yours," said Henry Fofti. "What color?" The Princess chose blue. Not to be outdone, General Motors' President William S. Knudsen gave the Princess a pair of synthetic silk stockings, the Prince a dark blue Cadillac...
Automobiles. General Motors' Alfred P. Sloan, No. 1 in 1936 with $561,311, dropped to $183,708. (His company sold 4% more cars in 1937 than in 1936.) G. M.'s President William S. Knudsen dropped from $459,878 to $247,210. Ford Motor Co. paid Chairman Henry Ford nothing, President Edsel Ford $146,056, Vice President Peter Martin $171,465, Superintendent Charles E. Sorensen $166,071. Nash-Kelvinator Corp. paid its President George Walter Mason $233,957; Chrysler Corp.'s Chairman Walter P. Chrysler drew...
...apologetic phrase for the Investigation. He hoped to make witnesses, however big of wig, feel (though subpoenaed) like voluntary bugs on a slide instead of the quarry in a witch-hunt. His program first called up big bugs from the motors and glass industries-Edsel Ford, William Knudsen, George A. Ball, William Levis-to be examined scientifically with special reference to their patent and sales practices as typical U. S. industrial phenomena...