Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reporter-What is your attitude toward the Lincoln...
Theodore Dreiser will speak before the Liberal Club at a closed meeting early next month. He has refused to address an open meeting because he feels that his talk will be important only to those with liberal ideas. Lincoln Steffens will also appear before the club during the year...
Sweeten Automobile's attorney moralized last week: "His [Ford's] purpose, of course, was to make the Lincoln company appear to be a worthless enterprise so that Ford himself would appear justified in making a low bid. . . . From that day on there was wickedness and willfulness in the heart of Henry Ford...
...will probably appeal the verdict, it was the first Leland victory in the ten-year fight. Originally Ford sued Sweeten for $6,800 in unpaid notes and interest, but the agency promptly filed a counter suit for $160,000. Sweeten claimed that Henry Ford had promised to maintain exclusive Lincoln agencies in 75 cities, that this was soon cut to 40 and Ford dealers began to sell Lincolns. The more Lincolns the Ford dealers sold, the less Sweeten and other Lincoln dealers sold. Henry H. Rudolph, a former Sweeten vice president, swore that when he told Henry Ford that they...
...most willing witness was Wilfred Leland Sr. One night, he testified, Edsel Ford had summoned him for a conference on the Lincoln sale. Son Edsel told him to come by a back road and enter the Ford mansion through a side door. During the conference Mr. Leland confided that he was dickering with Manhattan bankers and Henry Ford thereupon promised to buy the company. But Mr. Ford shrewdly advised Mr. Leland that he "should continue to negotiate, however, and should dress shabbily, go unshaven for two or three days, so as to appear poor and discouraged about the affair...