The People's Tycoon: Henry Ford and the American Century (Vintage) (118 page)

48.
Lewis,
Public Image,
pp. 266–68; Sorensen,
My Forty Years with Ford,
pp. 268–71.

1.
“Henry Ford Has a New Tie, and He's Still Looking Ahead,” and “Ford Watches Town Pageant,” Detroit
Free Press,
July 30, 1938.

2.
“9,000 Party Experts Throw a Real One for Henry Ford,” Detroit
Free Press,
July 31, 1938; “Happy Children Lift Voices in Jubilee Tribute to Ford,” Detroit
News,
July 31, 1938; “Detroit Honors Genius of Ford, Its No. 1 Citizen,” Detroit
Free Press,
July 31, 1938; “1,500 Diners Toast Ford on Birthday,” Detroit
News,
July 31, 1938; W. R. Brewer, “Reminiscences,” pp. 14–15.

3.
“Henry Ford, 75,”
Newsweek,
Aug. 8, 1938, p. 10; Anne o'Hare McCormick, “The Future of the Ford Idea,” New York
Times Magazine,
May 22, 1932, pp. 1–2.

4.
Robert A. Smith, “Reminiscences,” pp. 21–22.

5.
Mrs. Stanley Ruddiman, “Reminiscences,” p. 65.

6.
John McIntyre, “Reminiscences,” pp. 3–4. Voorhess, Buhler, de Caluwe, Rankin, and Wilson have contributed reminiscences to the FA, and they offer rich material on the Fords' domestic life during this period.

7.
Voorhess, “Reminiscences,” pp. 35–36; Brewer, “Reminiscences,” pp. 16–17, 8–9.

8.
McIntyre, “Reminiscences,” pp. 6–8; Donn P. Werling,
Henry Ford: A Hearthside Perspective
(Warrendale, Pa., 2000), pp. 16, 37–38.

9.
William Clay Ford, quoted in David L. Lewis,
Ford Country: The Family, the Company, the Cars
(Sydney, Ohio, 1999), p. 16; Joseph Zaroski, “Reminiscences,” p. 6; McIntyre, “Reminiscences,” p. 20.

10.
Smith, “Reminiscences,” p. 22; Jerome S. Wilford, quoted in Lewis,
Ford Country,
pp. 63–64.

11.
Ruddiman, “Reminiscences,” pp. 48–49; Ford R. Bryan,
Clara: Mrs. Henry Ford
(Dearborn, 2001), pp. 262–64; Voorhess, “Reminiscences,” pp. 36–39; McIntyre, “Reminiscences,” p. 24; Edward J. Cutler, “Reminiscences,” p. 97.

12.
McIntyre, “Reminiscences,” p. 22; de Caluwe, “Reminiscences,” pp. 26–28; Ruddiman, “Reminiscences,” p. 46.

13.
Ruddiman, “Reminiscences,” pp. 115–17, 118, 125, 131; Voorhess, “Reminiscences,” p. 48.

14.
Ruddiman, “Reminiscences,” pp. 69–70; Voorhess, “Reminiscences,” pp. 40–41, 45.

15.
Ruddiman, “Reminiscences,” pp. 68–69, 73, 76, 84, 86; Bryan,
Clara,
pp. 250–51.

16.
Cutler, “Reminiscences,” p. 99; Ruddiman, “Reminiscences,” p. 77; Bryan,
Clara,
p. 248.

17.
Ford R. Bryan,
Friends, Families, and Forays: Scenes from the Life and Times of Henry Ford
(Dearborn, 2002), pp. 363–69, 414–19; Ruddiman, “Reminiscences,” pp. 47–48.

18.
Voorhess, “Reminiscences,” pp. 39–40; Ruddiman, “Reminiscences,” p. 60; Bryan,
Friends, Families, and Forays,
pp. 353–62, 370–75.

19.
Voorhess, “Reminiscences,” pp. 46–47; Ruddiman, “Reminiscences,” pp. 66–67; W. R. Brewer, “Reminiscences,” and Lawrence Sheldrick, “Reminiscences,” quoted in Carol Gelderman,
Henry Ford: The Wayward Capitalist
(New York, 1981), pp. 214–15.

20.
Brewer, “Reminiscences,” and Sheldrick, “Reminiscences,” quoted in Gelderman,
Ford: Wayward Capitalist,
pp. 214–15; John Côté Dahlinger,
The Secret Life of Henry Ford
(Indianapolis, 1978), pp. 71, 74; McIntyre, “Reminiscences,” p. 24; William Clay Ford, interview in Detroit
News,
1993, quoted in Lewis,
Ford Country,
pp. 15–16; Werling,
Ford: Hearthside Perspective,
p. 138; “Fords Relish Memories of Auto Giant's Heart, Legacy,” Detroit
News,
June 18, 1995.

21.
Ernest G. Liebold, “Reminiscences,” p. 1486; Werling,
Ford: Hearthside Perspective,
p. 98.

22.
Voorhess, “Reminiscences,” pp. 188–89; Dahlinger,
Secret Life,
pp. 35–38; Werling,
Ford: Hearthside Perspective,
p. 98; Brewer, “Reminiscences,” and Sheldrick, “Reminiscences,” quoted in Gelderman,
Ford: Wayward Capitalist,
pp. 214–15; Henry Dominguez,
Edsel: The Story of Henry Ford's Forgotten Son
(Warrendale, Pa., 2002), pp. 272–73.

23.
Rufus Wilson, “Reminiscences,” pp. 25–26; Ruddiman, “Reminiscences,” pp. 108–10.

24.
Brewer, “Reminiscences,” p. 11; Andrew Hild, “He Was a Nice Man,” Detroit
Sunday News Magazine,
April 3, 1977, pp. 60–63; Stout, quoted in Werling,
Ford: Hearthside Perspective,
p. 99.

25.
Eva o'Neal Twork,
Henry Ford and Benjamin B. Lovett: The Dancing Billionaire and the Dancing Master
(Detroit, 1982), pp. 196–97; Sidney Olson,
Young Henry Ford: A Pictorial History of the First Forty Years
(Detroit, 1997 [1963]), p. 39; Ford R. Bryan,
Henry's Lieutenants
(Detroit, 1993), p. 296; William A. Simonds,
Henry Ford: His Life, His Work, His Genius
(Indianapolis, 1943), p. 238; Allan Nevins and Frank Hill,
Ford: Decline and Rebirth, 1933–1962
(New York, 1962), p. 407; series of letters from Ann Hood to HF, 1934 to 1943, in acc. 1, box 138, FA.

26.
“Mr. Ford Doesn't Care,”
Fortune,
Dec. 1933, p. 63; Bryan,
Henry's Lieutenants,
pp. 59–65.

27.
Cutler, “Reminiscences,” p. 135; S. J. Woolf, “Ford Answers Wealth-Sharers,” New York
Times Magazine,
July 7, 1935, pp. 1–2.

28.
Irving Bacon, “Reminiscences,” pp. 66–67; Woolf, “Ford Answers Wealth-Sharers,” p. 1; Voorhess, “Reminiscences,” p. 36.

29.
A. G. Wolfe, “Reminiscences,” pp. 210–11, quoted in text; Samuel Crowther, “Our Job: An Interview with Henry Ford,”
Saturday Evening Post,
Oct. 31, 1936, p. 5; Woolf, “Ford Answers Wealth-Sharers,” p. 1; Fred C. Kelly, “Ford Urges Nation to Shun War and Stock Gambling,” New York
Times,
Oct. 27, 1935; Voorhess, “Reminiscences,” pp. 67, 36.

30.
Nevins and Hill,
Ford: Decline and Rebirth,
pp. 56–57; Charles E. Sorensen,
My Forty Years with Ford
(New York, 1956), p. 176; Woolf, “Ford Answers Wealth-Sharers,” p. 2.

31.
Ruddiman, “Reminiscences,” pp. 38–40, 44, 67–68; Kelly, “Ford Urges Nation to Shun War”; McCormick, “Future of Ford Idea,” p. 2; Wilson, “Reminiscences,” p. 20.

32.
McIntyre, “Reminiscences,” pp. 9–11; Ruddiman, “Reminiscences,” pp. 44, 103–4; F. Raymond Daniell, “Ford Confidently Faces a Labor Duel,” New York
Times,
Oct. 17, 1937.

33.
Voorhess, “Reminiscences,” pp. 47, 42–44; Roy Schumann, “Reminiscences,” p. 145; Smith, “Reminiscences,” pp. 25–26.

34.
Schumann, “Reminiscences,” p. 146; Bacon, “Reminiscences,” p. 67; Ruddiman, “Reminiscences,” pp. 104–5.

35.
Voorhess, “Reminiscences,” p. 76; McIntyre, “Reminiscences,” pp. 20, 16; Cutler, “Reminiscences,” p. 135.

36.
Sheldrick, “Reminiscences,” pp. 187–89; Werling,
Ford: Hearthside Perspective,
p. 141; Voorhess, “Reminiscences,” pp. 61–62, 65.

37.
Zaroski, “Reminiscences,” p. 3; Ruddiman, “Reminiscences,” pp. 54, 69–70; Werling,
Ford: Hearthside Perspective,
p. 141.

38.
McIntyre, “Reminiscences,” pp. 18–19; Smith, “Reminiscences,” pp. 19–20.

39.
McIntyre, “Reminiscences,” pp. 17–18; Brewer, “Reminiscences,” pp. 10–11.

40.
Ruddiman, “Reminiscences,” pp. 44, 63; Smith, “Reminiscences,” p. 21.

1.
New York
Times,
Feb. 14, 1930; Samuel Crowther, “Educating for Leadership: Henry Ford Explains His New Schools for a Million Children,”
Ladies' Home Journal,
Aug. 1930, p. 12.

2.
HF and James C. Derieux, “The Making of an American Citizen: A Manufacturer and a Social Psychologist Think Our Schools Should Do a Better Job,”
Good Housekeeping,
Oct. 1934, p. 20.

3.
Ford Ideals: Being a Selection from Mr. Ford's Page in the Dearborn Independent
(Dearborn, 1922), p. 412; William Greenleaf,
From These Beginnings: The Early Philanthropies of Henry and Edsel Ford, 1911–1936
(Detroit, 1963), pp. 137–39; Fred C. Kelly, “Mr. Ford Talks of Many Things,”
Barron's,
Jan. 26, 1931, p. 5.

4.
Arthur B. Moehlman, “Don't Neglect the Children,”
Nation's Schools,
April 1942, p. 18; “Not Teaching—Learning,”
Forum,
Sept. 1938, p. 122; HF, quoted in Samuel Crowther, “The Only Real Security,”
Saturday Evening Post,
Feb. 1, 1936, p. 7, and in Crowther, “Educating for Leadership,” p. 69; HF and Derieux, “Making of an American Citizen,” p. 117.

5.
My discussion of HF's educational ideology has been influenced by David B. Tyack,
The One Best System: A History of American Urban Education
(Cambridge, Mass., 1974); Lawrence A. Cremin,
The Transformation of the School: Progressivism in American Education, 1876–1957
(New York, 1961); Stephen S. Mucher, “Making Sense of Henry Ford's Educational Progressivism(s): A Tale of Two Schools,” unpublished paper, in Vertical File—“HF, Schools,” FA.

6.
H. E. Gronseth, “Ford's Vocational Schools,”
Automotive Industries,
Aug. 29, 1936, pp. 276–78, 292; n.a., “Henry Ford Trade School,” and Keith Glassley, “History of Henry Ford Trade School,” both in Vertical File—“Henry Ford Trade School,” FA; Ford R. Bryan,
Henry's Lieutenants
(Detroit, 1993), pp. 236–40; Ford R. Bryan,
Beyond the Model T: The Other Ventures of Henry Ford
(Detroit, 1990), pp. 179–80.

7.
Crowther, “Educating for Leadership,” p. 69; Frederick Searle, “Reminiscences,” pp. 4, 36.

8.
Madeline J. Straight, “Henry Ford: Schoolmaster,”
Nation's Schools,
May 1942, pp. 14–17; “Edison Institute Schools,” in Vertical File—“Edison Institute Schools,” FA; Greenleaf,
From These Beginnings,
pp. 147–50.

9.
Greenleaf,
From These Beginnings,
p. 149; J. L. McCloud, “Reminiscences,” p. 385.

10.
Bryan,
Beyond the Model T,
p. 176; Greenleaf,
From These Beginnings,
pp. 143–46; “Edison Institute Schools.”

11.
On the Fords and the Berry School, see Mrs. Inez Henry, “Reminiscences,” pp. 15–45; Har-nett T. Kane,
Miracle in the Mountains
(Garden City, N.Y., 1956), pp. 201–15; Greenleaf,
From These Beginnings,
pp. 141–43; David G. Roberts, “The Berry School Plant,” unpublished paper, 1986, in Vertical File—“Berry School,” FA. All of these sources are quoted in text.

12.
“Mr. Ford Doesn't Care,”
Fortune,
Dec. 1933, p. 134. For a good survey of Ford's soybean project, see Reynold M. Wik,
Henry Ford and Grass-Roots America
(Ann Arbor, Mich., 1972), pp. 148–55.

13.
Robert Boyer, “Reminiscences,” pp. 15–19; Bryan,
Henry's Lieutenants,
pp. 45–50; Robert A. Smith, “Reminiscences,” pp. 27–28.

14.
HF, quoted in “Economic Liberation for the Farmer,”
Ford News,
June 1934, pp. 108–9; and in “Automobiles and Soy Beans: An Interview by Arthur Van Vlissingen, Jr., with Henry Ford,”
Rotarian,
Sept. 1933, n.p., in Vertical File—“Soybeans,” FA.

15.
“Automobiles and Soybeans”; “Economic Liberation for the Farmer,” p. 109.

16.
David L. Lewis, “Henry Ford and the Magic Beanstalk,” p. 5, unpublished paper, 1991, in
Vertical File—“Soybeans,” FA; “Economic Liberation for the Farmer,” p. 109; Smith, “Reminiscences,” pp. 7–8, 13; Joseph Galamb, “Reminiscences,” pp. 115–16.

17.
“Economic Liberation for the Farmer,” p. 108; Lewis, “Ford and the Magic Beanstalk,” p. 6; Wik,
Ford and Grass-Roots America,
p. 154; Bryan,
Beyond the Model T,
pp. 112–13.

18.
Rusty Davis, “Henry's Plastic Car: An Interview with Lowell E. Overly,”
V-8 Times,
n.d., pp. 46–51, in Vertical File—“Soybeans,” FA; David L. Lewis,
The Public Image of Henry Ford: An American Folk Hero and His Company
(Detroit, 1976), pp. 283–87.

19.
HF, quoted in “The '43 Ford,”
Fortune,
Feb. 1943, p. 112; see also Albert DeLorge, “Reminiscences,” p. 21; Ford R. Bryan, “A Prized Friendship: Henry Ford and George Washington Carver,”
Ford Museum and Greenfield Village Herald,
1983, pp. 90–95.

20.
Allan Nevins and Frank Hill,
Ford: Decline and Rebirth, 1933–1962
(New York, 1962), pp. 124–25, quoted in text; Lewis,
Public Image,
pp. 287–88.

21.
HF, preface, company pamphlet on new Ford-Ferguson tractor, n.t., 1941, in Vertical File—“Tractors—Ford Ferguson,” FA; “Henry Ford and Harry Ferguson Revolutionize Farming,”
Ford Field Magazine,
July 1939, pp. 10–15; Nevins and Hill,
Ford: Decline and Rebirth,
pp. 124–25; Lewis,
Public Image,
pp. 287–88.

22.
On the Fords at Richmond Hill, see Stuart Kinzie, “Mr. Ford Lends a Hand,”
Scribner's Commentator,
April 1941, pp. 21–26; Franklin L. Long and Lucy B. Long,
The Henry Ford Era at Richmond Hill, Georgia
(Richmond Hill, Ga., 1998), pp. 1–12; Ford R. Bryan,
Friends, Families, and Forays: Scenes from the Life and Times of Henry Ford
(Dearborn, 2002), pp. 403–13.

23.
Long and Long,
Ford Era at Richmond Hill,
p. 3; Bryan,
Friends, Families, and Forays,
pp. 405–7.

24.
Mrs. Harry Gill, “Reminiscences,” pp. 7–8; Bryan,
Beyond the Model T,
p. 189; Bryan,
Friends, Families, and Forays,
p. 411; Long and Long,
Ford Era at Richmond Hill,
p. 5.