ONLY FOR JOURNALLIST-GA
Happy Friday! I appreciate your efforts. Below I attached Charlie's
response. Please do what you can about finding an original write up
from 1922 about these cars being loaned to DAVWW from Ford. If you
could find out by Monday around 2pm EST, it would be greatly
appreciated.
Thank you again!
Lara
Dear Researcher,
I have read the Ford link, although it was only a three line entry in
the
"Ford's Commitment to Rural America" and we are aware of the June 1996
DAV
Magazine article. Our concern is that Ford may have picked up this
info
and
ran with it "as is". Did they verify it?
I looked through an Index for the New York Times for March-June 1922
and
found nothing. I looked though the Cincinnati Post yesterday and found
nothing. Cincinnati was made the headquarters of the DAVWW during the
first
National Convention held at the Tuller Hotel in Detroit during June
1921.
During research many years ago I easily found info on the DAVWW in the
local
papers.
I believe if it did happen, the Detroit newspapers and/or the San
Francisco
newspapers would have covered this.
Last night I read through the last two days of official "PROCEEDINGS
AT
THE
SECOND ANNUAL CONVENTION OF THE DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS OF THE
WORLD
WAR
HELD AT THE ST. FRANCIS HOTEL, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, JUNE 26TH TO
30TH,
1922" I also scanned through the first forty pages and found no
references
to Ford, vehicles loaned, or any mention of this. I am aware of Henry
Fords
political ideas of that time and realize this may be the cause of no
mention
in the official proceedings, on the record. I did read a page or more
devoted to resolutions offered commending the steamship lines,
railroads and
particularly the Pullman line giving the wounded vets a fifty percent
off
rate to travel to and from the convention. It seems that in a time
where
the proceedings would record a savings of pennies or a dollar or two,
a
loan
of fifty vehicles representing hundreds of dollars would merit an
unusual
amount of conversation, or at least a mention regardless of the
contributors
political or religious views.
If this happened, Henry Ford would have had it covered for his
newspaper. I
would imagine there would have to be photos if not a magazine article
or two
on a journey of two thousand miles over roads before the national road
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Request for Question Clarification by
journalist-ga
on
18 Apr 2003 10:16 PDT
Thank you very much for this additional information. I've already
planned to call Ford tomorrow as their recording also stated they
would resume regular business hours tomorrow. However, I really need
to speak with someone in Public Relations or who is very familiar with
Ford's history (and I'm not hopeful they'll be in on a Saturday,
especially with it being Easter weekend) and that will probably be
possible only by Monday. I'll make the necessary inquiries then in
hopes the person I need to speak with didn't take an extended holiday.
In the meantime, I'll continue various search strategies though I fear
a replica of the article is not available on the Internet. I'll
update you if I locate any information of consequence.
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Request for Question Clarification by
journalist-ga
on
21 Apr 2003 09:35 PDT
Greetings Laracello:
I hope you had a safe and pleasant holiday weekend. :) I just spoke
with Helen at the Ford Customer Service site. She took all the
information from me and said she would call me back by tomorrow at
4:00 p.m. EST with an answer (I requested a copy of any 1922 article
regarding the loan). I explained your deadline but she said she would
need time to see if she could run the info down.
I have not heard back from my emails to the newspapers, either. I
wanted to give you this update so that you could update your client.
Also, I searched Questia (http://www.questia.com) to see if they had
any references in their online books but I had no luck there.
I'll continue to keep you posted.
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Clarification of Question by
laracello-ga
on
21 Apr 2003 11:36 PDT
Thanks for the update. The meeting with the client is tomorrow, so
Charles will pass on the news. Thanks for your help, I look forward
to hearing from you.
Lara
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Request for Question Clarification by
journalist-ga
on
23 Apr 2003 10:21 PDT
Wednesday noon update: I still haven't received word back from the
phone call or the emails. I'll resend them and make another call to
Ford. Keep your fingers crossed.
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Clarification of Question by
laracello-ga
on
23 Apr 2003 11:36 PDT
They are crossed, thank you.
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Clarification of Question by
laracello-ga
on
24 Apr 2003 13:34 PDT
It has been a week, so I thought I would check in to see what if any
progress we have? Any response from:
1. Ford?
2. San Francisco newspaper?
3. Detroit newspaper?
We have a publication deadline coming up and would like to use this
story
but we need conformation. Can you get back to me with an update?
Thank you.
Charles Wallace
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Request for Question Clarification by
journalist-ga
on
24 Apr 2003 19:15 PDT
Still no email response and no callback from Ford. I had high hopes
for Helen returning my call but she hasn't yet (and my line has
call-waiting and messaging so she didn't encounter a busy signal on my
end). I phoned back and repeated my query to another woman and asked
that Helen be located, too. Nothing is forthcoming yet on this end.
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Clarification of Question by
laracello-ga
on
29 Apr 2003 04:45 PDT
Hello,
Well, it looks like still no luck? The deadline is closing in, so if
you could update me by 3pm, I'd appreciate it. At that point if you
have been unable to find the info, we'll have to transfer the duty
elsewhere- our own guys on the microfiche. Thanks for your work thus
far.
Lara
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Request for Question Clarification by
journalist-ga
on
29 Apr 2003 07:03 PDT
Still nothing. I've continued searches with no luck and none of the
newspapers have returned even a stock email. I will attempt once more
to contact Helen and hope she has found some info. You'd think it
wouldn't be so hard to get people to respond. :0
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Clarification of Question by
laracello-ga
on
01 May 2003 19:14 PDT
It sounds like using people as resources is most inconvenient! It's
too bad that they are not responding.
I wish you luck!
The final meeting is early next week, so if they don't get the info to
you before 10am on Monday, I'll have to close the request.
Again, thanks for your time and effort.
Lara
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Request for Question Clarification by
journalist-ga
on
03 May 2003 07:29 PDT
Well, STILL no email returns or phone call success. Mathtalk-ga
headed to a research library the other day and he said he'd see if
anything could be located there regarding an actual newspaper article
from the period. I haven't heard back if he was successful but rest
assured I'll let you know if he was.
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Clarification of Question by
laracello-ga
on
03 May 2003 08:51 PDT
Ok. Thank you for the update and all of your efforts. I'll inform
Charlie and get back to you.
Have a good weekend!
Lara
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Clarification of Question by
laracello-ga
on
03 May 2003 14:09 PDT
Hello!
Ok, we will not close it on Monday. Please continue to keep us informed.
Have a good weekend!
Lara
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