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...only about half as much ($85,316) as his slender colleague Stan Laurel ($156,266). Henry Ford drew no salary from Ford Motor Co., while Son Edsel's $100,376 was topped by Ford's Vice President P. E. Martin ($128,008) and General Manager Charles E. Sorensen ($115,100). Pundit Walter Lippmann of the New York Herald Tribune made $54,329, whereas older and more famed Herald Tribune Columnist Mark Sullivan drew only $23,527, Franklin Pierce Adams only...
Ford makes his headquarters. There for counsel and advice go untitled Fordlings like William Cowling (sales), Albert M. Wibel (purchasing) and Charles Sorensen, hard-boiled superintendent of the mighty Rouge works.* Also high in Ford councils are William J. Cameron, Mr. Ford's official spokesman, and Harry H. Bennett, who handles personnel and directs Ford Motor's notoriously efficient police. But the one & only boss of Ford Motor Co. is Henry Ford...
...Once at the Rouge works, where sitting down is not encouraged, Superintendent Sorensen spied a workman squatting on a box fiddling with a length of wire. Up strode Mr. Sorensen, kicked the box from beneath the workman. When he got to his feet, the workman knocked Mr. Sorensen to the floor. "You're fired!" said Mr. Sorensen as he in turn uprose. "The hell I am," yelled the workman. "I work for the Bell Telephone...
...credit of making one third of all the world's automobiles on its twenty-fifth birthday. A similar change has come over Ford. Henry Ford still rules Ford Motor Co. but he no longer is Ford Motor Co. He says "Yes" and "No," but Edsel Ford, Charles Sorensen, Peter Martin, William Cowling and others are an organization, and the organization makes Ford cars. In this year of Recovery, however, the prima donna of industries still has one impresario of the old school. One of the Big Three, whose 1933 record is the most striking of all, he is Walter...
...Cardinal or other Catholic prelate was present but the American Apostolic Church in America sent their chief prelate, and the big warm room buzzed with the voices of General Motors' Sloan, General Electric's Gerard Swope, Ford's Sorensen, Pennsylvania Railroad's Atterbury, Baldwin Locomotive's Houston, Thomas A. Edison's son Charles, Theodore Roosevelt's son Kermit, Owen D. Young, Henry Morgenthau Sr. and dowagers galore. As Comrade Litvinoff waddled in to take his place beneath the crossed Red Flag and Stars and Stripes the "Star-Spangled Banner" brought all to their...