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On This Day in Automotive History: November 27

On This Day in Automotive History
November 27

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Birthdays: L.B. Harvey (1864), Gil Andersen (1879), William Sickinger (1889), Red Foote (1927), Don Porter (1928), David Preece (1941), Alain de Cadenet (1945), Mike Fry (1946), Ian Luff (1949), Masanori Sekiya (1949), Keith Newbern (1951), Jeff Faber (1953), Billy Standridge (1953), William Fichtner (1956), Duke Hoenshell (1956), Hershel McGriff Jr. (1956), Kenny Acheson (1957), Rick Polk (1957), Jesus Diez Villarroel (1961), Fred LaGoy (1963), Jeff Jones (1964), Tommy Vigh Jr. (1964), Steve Fisher (1969), Chad Ragland (1970), Stew Hayward (1973), Shane Riffel (1976), Ricky Carmichael (1979), Romain Iannetta (1979), Takis Kaitatzis (1980), Matt Lee (1989), Anthony Cataldi (1995), Kate Dallenbach (1996), Logan Runyon (1996), Tobias Dauenhauer (1997), Alex Peroni (1999)

1937: President Franklin D. Roosevelt's message to Congress protests that the normal contract authority practice of advance authorization under the Federal-aid highway program "ties the hands of the Executive" and should be abandoned. Senator Carl Hayden responds that tying the hands of the Executive was "exactly what the Congress intended to do."

1956: At AASHO's Annual Meeting in Atlantic City, New Jersey, the George S. Bartlett Award is presented to Pyke Johnson of the Automotive Safety Foundation. The presenter, G. Donald Kennedy of the Portland Cement Association, says that Johnson's close friend, Thomas MacDonald, now retired, would have attended "except for a recent bout with pneumonia and a heart impairment which his doctor said should not be exposed to the emotion of this occasion." MacDonald's prepared statement, his first for AASHO since his retirement, states: "Now that the idea that Mr. Johnson and his associates have so vigorously and courageously championed--the State-Federal plan of action--has attained a maturity of unchallenged excellence, their faith has been justified."

1968: Administrator Lowell Bridwell presents the First Annual Administrator's Award to 10 Headquarters employees: Deputy Director Edgar H. Swick; Chief Counsel Howard A. Heffron; Richard S. Salzman, Chief, Legislative Division; James E. Wilson, Deputy Director of Highway Safety Programs Services, NHSB; Daniel W. Fulmer, Director of Traffic Safety Secretariat, NHSB; Charles W. Prisk, Deputy Director for Safety; Kenneth L. Pierson, Special Assistant to the Director of BMCS; Joan B. Claybrook, Special Assistant to the Director, NHSB; Librarian Mildred W. Helvestine; and Director of Public Affairs Albert B. Kelley.