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...Ford's production manager in his great expansion period, Motorman Knudsen had a prime hand in creating modern mass production. He had a front-trench post during the young industry's war for survival in which hundreds of motor manufacturers were killed off. A $50,000-a-year Fordman in 1921, he next year entered General Motors as adviser to a vice president. Three years after he was president of Chevrolet. There his production genius is credited with forcing Ford to give up Model T for Model A. When a new job was created...
Leaping Parson. Two years after William Knudsen arrived in the U. S., a son was born to a rural schoolman named Martin on a farm near Marion, Ill. Named Homer, the boy grew up lithe, springy, idealistic, became a star track man at Missouri's tiny William Jewell college, won the national hop, step & jump championship in 1924. Having begun preaching when he was 19, he was dubbed "The Leaping Parson." In 1931, brimming with zeal for applied Christianity, Homer Martin was called to the pulpit of small Leeds Baptist Church on the outskirts of Kansas City. Most...
...Battle. Last week in Detroit the paths which began in Copenhagen and on an Illinois farm had met. William Knudsen and Homer Martin, as opposing field generals, were locked in one of the crucial industrial battles of U. S. history-the struggle of United Automobile Workers to make good General Martin's old boast, organize all 69 automobile plants of giant General Motors Corp.* (TIME...
Behind General Knudsen and his Generalissimo President Alfred P. Sloan Jr. stood G. M.'s mighty masters, the du Ponts, Chairman Lammot, Directors Pierre, Irénée and Henry, with all their own prodigious resources of wealth and power, plus those of the great industries linked with motors by business and financial interdependence, and in a common defense against John Lewis' offensive. On the battle's outcome, informed observers agreed, hung the whole future of U. S. industrial relations...
Flanked by their advisers, the rival generals maneuvered from headquarters two miles apart. G. M.'s Knudsen in the big General Motors Building on Grand Boulevard West, U. A. W.'s Martin in the Hofmann Building on downtown Woodward Avenue. Their battlefield was the whole U. S. As the week began. 14 G. M. plants had been closed or crippled by U. A. W. "sitdown" strikes, throwing 40,600 employes out of work. When the week ended, 28 plants and 93,000 out of a total 135,000 production employes were idle...