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...only to persons who had driven at least 50,000 miles in ten years without accident or conviction of a traffic violation. Driving to Manhattan in their own cars at the expense of the American Automobile Association and the Commercial Investment Trust Safety Foundation, they settled down at the WaldorfAstoria for a three-day palaver about highway safety. Only one of their deliberations produced anything newsworthy: a poll of their open road driving speeds filled out anonymously by 42 of the 49. The results...
...where he went to high school and ran a car-washing business. G. H. Q. of Cord Corp. is at No. 105 West Adams St., Chicago. In the swank Lake Shore Drive district Cord maintains a large apartment. When visiting Manhattan he lives expensively in a suite at the WaldorfAstoria. Over the U. S. sweeps the Kingdom of Cord: at Camden, his $15,000,000 New York Shipbuilding Corp.: in Kalamazoo, his $4,500,000 Checker Cab Manufacturing Corp., largest in the U. S.; in Williamsport. Pa., his Lycoming Manufacturing Co. said to be the largest motor-builders...
...Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. Reason: "I did not think it ethical to be director of the Metropolitan and at the same time be head of a real-estate company [Empire State Inc.] which was applying for a large loan from the Metropolitan Life with which to erect a building" [WaldorfAstoria building, Manhattan...
After he had retired from business he started to clean up "Delaware politics," and was appointed U. S. Senator in 1918. In the same year he went into the hotel business (WaldorfAstoria and McAlpin, New York, arid Bellevue-Stratford, Philadelphia). "One of the most democratic of men, liked by all who come in contact with...