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President, Ford; Vice President, Voliva (leader of a religious sect that runs Zion City, in northern Illinois. He and the city are noted 1) for arresting automobilists; 2) for making women wear high-necked dresses and long skirts; 3) for believing that the world is flat); Secretary of State, Upton Sinclair; Secretary of Commerce, La Follette; Secretary of the Treasury, Wildman Brookhart; Secretary of the Navy, Arthur Brisbane; Secretary of War, W. J. Bryan...
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Said Chauncey M. Depew: "I can't understand the psychology that makes Henry Ford a Presidential candidate. Take John D. Rockefeller, for instance. He has spent $500,000,000 for humanity, yet he couldn't be elected to any office. But Mr. Ford, who has also devoted himself to making money,.although he has not given much of it away, appears to be a popular choice for the Presidency. I cannot understand it. I don't believe he will be nominated...
...History Is Bunk." Mr. Henry Ford's remark of four year's ago about history has been duplicated this year by a remark about the Bible. In his John Burroughs' Talks, Chapter 20, Clifton Johnson reports the great naturalist as follows: "One day I was telling him (Ford) what a great book I thought the Bible was ?what noble literature; and he said: ' I haven't read it much, but I tell you what I think?Emerson's books and Thoreau's and yours (Burroughs') will be read after the Bible is forgotten.' " If Mr. Ford knew more history...
Some weeks past the country was astonished to learn that a bid of $1,051,000,000 had been made for the whole U. S. Government Merchant Marine. It was at first suspected that the bidder, John W. Slack of Silver Creek, N. Y., was acting for Henry Ford. The bid was obviously fictitious and was not seriously considered in Washington. Mr. Slack's name, however, as well as the name of his native town of Silver Creek, N. Y., received instant and widespread publicity...