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...Word from Detroit announced that the following dictum had been posted in Henry Ford's factories...
...rumor that Henry Ford contemplated entering Wall Street by purchasing some large bank there has perished under malnutrition of facts. Yet it is not generally recognized that Mr. Ford is already a bank president. For some time he has headed the Dearborn State Bank of Dearborn, Mich., while his secretary, E. G. Liebold, functions as its Vice President and Director...
...Ford's bank has still to attain exceptional size. Last year its total deposits were $2,250,000, of which about $900,000 were commercial deposits subject to check. Undoubtedly Ford has an account in the institution. Yet it cannot exceed $1,350,000-and probably is not that large...
...problem of securing circulation for the publication was attacked with Ford's habitual energy. When he purchased it, its subscribers numbered only a few hundred. After some of his sensational views on various topics appeared, quite a number of readers bought it for a time out of mere curiosity. But the bulk of its subscriptions were obtained by Ford agents or employees on liberal commissions of from 30 to 50%. Many Ford plants subscribed to the weekly 100%. Yet its circulation has spread considerably beyond Mr. Ford's own business following. There are 125,000 immediately employed...
Undoubtedly Mr. Ford's fondness for his paper is due to his ability to say in it just what he thinks about Jews, moneylenders, international bankers, currency, who started the War and why, and other favorite topics. As a subtitle, the weekly bears the slogan, "Chronicler of the Neglected Truth...