As Henry Ford neared his 70th birthday in 1930, he decided that his only son Edsel wasn't tough enough to take over the Ford Motor Company so he brought in some muscle to help do battle with the company's workers and competitors, according to noted scholar Stephen Fox, author of Blood and Power.
The muscle was a man named Harry Bennett. Bennett was put …
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