Word: knudsen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Down the list droned the clerk, paused at the last name and took a breath. Then, "Not guilty." Over Bill Knudsen's broad Danish face spread a grin. He turned and silently shook the hand of the man next to him. Then there was handshaking all around...
...South Bend, Ind. courtroom one night last week sat 17 respectable business men, numb with the same chill apprehension that narrows the eyes of every accused man when his trial jury announces it is ready with its verdict. Hulking in their midst was bluff, red-faced President William S. Knudsen of General Motors Corp., nearby the slim figure of G. M. C.'s millionaire Board Chairman Alfred P. Sloan Jr. In the defendants' sanctuary around them sat 15 others: President John J. Schumann Jr., of General Motors Acceptance Corp., three of his vice presidents, lesser...
...ramrod-straight as the farmer-foreman handed up the verdict. The clerk began to read: General Motors Corporation, guilty; General Motors Sales Corporation, guilty; General Motors Acceptance Corporation, guilty; General Motors Acceptance Corporation of Indiana, guilty. He began the list of individual defendants: Alfred P. Sloan, William S. Knudsen, M. E. Coyle. . . . Over the faces of the defendants fell a dark shadow. The maximum penalty for the conspiracy as charged was a fine of $5,000 and a year in jail...
When he goes home at night to his Elizabethan house in swank Palmer Woods, he likes to stay there and read (history and biography) and before bedtime to go for a walk. Sometimes on his walks he meets husky President Bill Knudsen of General Motors or Director Pete Martin of Ford, both neighbors, but he seldom sees them otherwise. He is too busy and so are they...
...genius which stems from the machinist's bench and burgeons in a burning urge to put out a good product in quantity for low-priced sale, the U. S. motor industry owes its spectacular growth in the U. S. Most of its topflight executives, men like Ford, Chrysler, Knudsen and Keller, had nothing but their two hands and a kit of tools when they went to work...