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...subject. The president is Dr. Alexander Lambert, New York; the treasurer, Prof. Irving Fisher, of Yale. Two of the original members, John Burroughs and Sir William Osier, have died. While the committee contains a number of men widely known for their opposition to tobacco, such as Henry Ford, Hudson Maxim, Dr. Eugene Lyman Fisk, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, it has determined to get at the truth?if it can be obtained? by rigorous experimental methods, and is willing to stand or fall on the results of its investigations...
...Henry Ford: "I presented Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Edison with an automobile for their vacation tour. I selected a make other than...
...bright-faced, cheery, helpful youngster," so said E. Haldeman-Julius, Henry Ford of publishers, about Vol. I, No. 1, of his newest magazine venture (15 cents a copy, $1.50 a year). Over each of its pages it bears the heading: "KNOW THYSELF, GIRARD, KANSAS...
...Henry Ford: "Cruising on Grand Traverse Bay, I read in a paper how a Detroit woman had shot her husband dead because he bought an automobile instead of the home for which she was saving, and because he threatened to leave her and their three children. With tears in my eyes, I rose and went to the wireless room. By radio I instructed my Dearborn office to bail the woman out at any price. Friends, however, had already bailed her when my representative arrived...
...Piron system of low-temperature coal distillation, which Henry Ford is investigating at cost of $20,000,000, is a method of making a coke from bituminous coal which has all the advantages of anthracite and can be used in blast furnaces...