Word: leland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years of age, on the threshold of the exit from life, ready to meet my Maker," Henry Martyn Leland was still fighting Henry Ford. When the founder of both Cadillac Motor Car Co. and Lincoln Motor Co. died the next year his cause passed into the hands of his son and his grandson. For a decade this "Grand Old Man of the automobile industry," who had made rifles in the U. S. Springfield Arsenal during the Civil War and Liberty motors in his Lincoln plant during the World War, tried to make Henry Ford acknowledge an obligation not to himself...
Last January the grandson, Wilfred Chester Leland Jr., walked uninvited into an "old times party" at the Ford Laboratory in Dearborn and slapped into the lean hands of Henry Ford a long-delayed subpoena ordering him to appear and testify in a suit brought by a onetime Philadelphia Lincoln agency. Henry Ford never testified, but he and his son Edsel furnished depositions in which they denied, as they have always done, any agreement to pay off Lincoln's former creditors and stockholders. Last week an eleven-man jury (one was dismissed for expressing his opinion of Henry Ford ) ordered...
Though Henry Ford will probably appeal the verdict, it was the first Leland victory in the ten-year fight. Originally Ford sued Sweeten for $6,800 in unpaid notes and interest, but the agency promptly filed a counter suit for $160,000. Sweeten claimed that Henry Ford had promised to maintain exclusive Lincoln agencies in 75 cities, that this was soon cut to 40 and Ford dealers began to sell Lincolns. The more Lincolns the Ford dealers sold, the less Sweeten and other Lincoln dealers sold. Henry H. Rudolph, a former Sweeten vice president, swore that when he told Henry...
...University of Pennsylvania opened a new College of Liberal Arts for Women, enrollment 200. Stanford University lifted the limitation on female students which Mrs. Leland Stanford wrote into its charter in 1899. Fearing that women might some day outnumber men. she decreed that no more than 500 be enrolled. But Stanford has lately felt pinched. Hoping for bigger income, President Ray Lyman Wilbur pointed out another clause in the charter, stipulating a "university of high degree." He cunningly argued that the limitation clause made this impossible. Stanford's trustees agreed. Stanford's 3,000 males grumbled. With...
...were those so honored: President Atterbury of Pennsylvania Railroad, President Hutchins of University of Chicago, Dr. Harvey Gushing. Boston's famed surgeon. In 1931 when Eugene Meyer was given his "Y in life," Mr. Roberts (now president of S. W. Straus) received a letter from an alumnus of Leland Stanford, saying: "The award represents discrimination and judgment on the part of the givers. . . . Yours faithfully, Herbert Hoover...