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Late in January, A. M. A. President Macauley (Packard) and a group of other automotive presidents including Ford's Edsel Ford, Chrysler's K. T. Keller and General Motors' William S. Knudsen were closeted for nearly two hours with President Roosevelt. No one would reveal then or last week precisely what went on, but it was admitted that the President said something must be done to haul the bemired automobile industry out of the slump...
...obviously displeased by this reference to the vulnerability of some of his appointees-such as Associate Justice Hugo Black. But the President could not resent the keen analogy to the relations between himself and his son James, who might well be a modern-day Mercury using a White House Packard for his winged heels...
...automobile concern which was found guilty of violating the national labor relations act by the Labor Board was (1 Chrysler Motors, 2 General Motors, 3 Packard, 4 Ford Motor Co., 5 Studebaker...
...days later the President received a delegation of motormakers and finance company executives, including Edsel Ford, General Motors' William S. Knudsen, Chrysler Corp.'s K. T. Keller, Packard's Alvan Macauley, Commercial Credit's A. E. Duncan, Commercial Investment Trust's Henry Ittleson. As in most of his co-operation conferences, the President complained about specific aspects of business, this time the evils of easy installment credit and the irregularity of automobile employment. With these points the callers had no quarrel, departed with high resolves...
...Robert Taylor's, has a long top lock which Disney wraps around his finger while he talks. At a loss for words, he often resorts to pantomime. He works until six or seven o'clock every night, in busy times works round the clock. He drives his Packard roadster home to dinner, plays with his baby daughters, Diane Marie and Sharon Mae, and goes to bed. Hollywood hotspots seldom see him. Weekends he plays poor but occasionally inspired polo at the Riviera Country Club, where he has a one-goal rating. That he has any rating...