“Your Honr, if I was called Mr. Rolls Royce I wouldn’t mind. But to be called Henry Ford, and me, the janitor of a synagogue – no sah!” Thus said Henry Mathews. Negro, when arraigned in court on an assault charge because he resented being called Henry Ford, according to a story in the New York World.
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
