Detroit, May 14, Messrs. Edsel and Henry Ford, to-day, denied widespread rumours that they had been buying stock in the National City Bank.
"The Fords are not buying bank stocks anywhere," declared a statement, Mr. Henry Ford's antipathy to banks and his distrust of bankers is well known, having had striking demonstration some years ago when he extricated himself from a difficult financial post-war situation by nation-wide financing among his dealers, rather than "place himself in the grip of the bankers" as he put it—United Press.
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