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Some years ago the Chicago Tribune made unkind remarks about Henry Ford, and the supermechanic sued the Tribune for libel. In the course of Mr. Ford's testimony at the trial Tribune lawyers found that he did not differentiate between Arnold Bennett and Benedict Arnold. But Mr. Ford won the suit and at his own request took six cents in damages...
Speaking of Mr. Ford's modesty, a writer in the Courier-Journal (Louisville) remarked...
...There is Mr. Ford, whose colossal knowledge, whose range of reading, deep fund of historical research are hidden from the world because he has no love of display. I venture to say that if Mr. Ford was placed on the witness stand and required under oath to give a fifty-word biography of Benedict Arnold he would remain mute. Rather than appear learned or highbrow he would affect ignorance. It is the nature...
...Ford...
...vote Ford polled 5,000 votes to Harding's 3,100 and Cox's 1,900 in Ohio; 3,000 to McAdoo's 600 and Johnson's 2,200 in California; 2,800 to Smith's 3,600 in New York...