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...years the Dearborn Independent had been a small town weekly. In November, 1918, Henry Ford published it with the resolve to apply to it his much-discussed ideas of quantity production...
People's Progressives (formerly a pro-Ford group): Robert R. Pointer and Roy W. Harrop...
Delegate Alfred Lucking of Michigan, a lawyer of Henry Ford, came forward to argue for the majority League plank, saying: "If we provide for this referendum and lift the question out of politics, we will get 80% of the vote." Senator Jones of New Mexico spoke in the same tenor as the hall gradually emptied. The Senator's time ran out and he was stopped, the crowd applauding...
...Edsel Ford: "At 'Ox Hill,' Seal Harbor, Maine, a beautiful new $2,000,000 house is rapidly going up. When completed, it will be my summer home. Perched on one of the highest hills in the locality (a veritable mountain), the building will be made of faced granite hewn from the ledges on the side of the mountain. It affords a full view of the ocean and in the near distance are such places as those of Dr. J. B. Murphy, famed pathologist, and Ernest B. Dane, of Brookline, Mass. These places are noted for their scenic grandeur...
...Henry Ford: "One George F. Johnson (shoes), in the May Endicott-Johnson Workers' Magazine, scored me for my treatment of employes. Said he: 'If what he [Henry Ford] is reported to have said is true, he is likely to die one of the greatest failures the world has ever known, without the love, confidence, respect and good-will of his fellow-workers who helped to create his monumental business...