Word: suited
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...company's chairman, but readily admits that "I'm anti-Establishment when it comes to people like Ford." With his great power, Cohn says, Henry Ford "represents an era of American business that supposedly went out of style with the turn of the century." Cohn's suit was brought on behalf of a handful of stockholders. The suit charges, among other things, that Henry Ford, who scarcely needs money: 1) pocketed $2 million from the "highest officials of the Philippines government" in exchange for building a stamping plant in the islands; and 2) took $750,000 from...
Ford has vehemently denied all the charges, and the suit has had little visible support from the firm's other 335,400 stockholders. At the annual meeting last year, Cohn attempted to shout accusations at Ford, but was frequently booed by other shareholders, many of them present or former company employees...
Last month the appellate division of the New York State Supreme Court threw out Cohn's suit, saying that it should have been brought in Michigan, where the company is headquartered. Cohn, who vows to pursue the suit, is pondering whether to appeal the decision. Mean while, he has been trying to keep the case alive in the press...
...ZOOT SUIT...
...gave at the office." Moral solicitation for worthy causes is an old and honorable U.S. custom. So is a distaste for indignity and injustice. But, barring isolated instances, the theater does not lend itself comfortably to social polemics and underdog rhetoric. What too often happens, and Zoot Suit is a case in point, is the reduction of the stage to a soapbox and the meaningless ritual of preaching to the already converted...