There is little doubt that Walter P. Chrysler felt content to announce his retirement from Chrysler Corporation in 1935. He had put his trusted lieutenant, K. T. Keller, in command. His company was closing in on Ford as America's number-two automaker (a position it held briefly in 1933 and would maintain from 1937 through 1949). His Plymouth and Dodge brands were the industry's number-three and number-four sellers, respectivelyrnIn his autobiography Life of an American Workman (written with Boyden Sparks in 1937), Chrysler credited much of the corporation's success to his 1928 acquisition of Dodge Brothers, founded in 1914 by a pair of no-nonsense hard-drinking brothers from Niles, Michigan.
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机译：毫无疑问，沃尔特·克莱斯勒（Walter P. Chrysler）感到满意，宣布他于1935年从克莱斯勒公司退休。他任命了他值得信赖的中尉K. T. Keller上任。他的公司紧随福特之后，成为美国第二大汽车制造商（该职位在1933年短暂担任，并将一直保持到1937年至1949年）。他的普利茅斯（Plymouth）和道奇（Dodge）品牌分别是该行业的第三大卖家和第四大卖家。在他的自传《美国工人的生活》（1937年与博伊登·斯帕克斯（Boyden Sparks）撰写）中，克莱斯勒将公司的成功归功于1928年对道奇兄弟公司的收购。在1914年，来自密歇根州奈尔斯市的一对不废话的烈性酒兄弟。
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