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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. George Fulmer Getz, 72, Chicago coalman, onetime (1933-36) treasurer of the Republican National Committee; of a heart attack; in Miami Beach...
...business done, observed with customary enthusiasm: "Fifty million dollars worth of building will feel the steam shovels Monday morning!" FHA Administrator McDonald, a onetime motormaker who produced the first cheap, goodlooking car (Moon, Diana), has already done his part. He built himself a house at Palm Beach this winter...
Died. Harvey Samuel Firestone, 70, tiremaker; of coronary thrombosis; in Miami Beach, Fla. In 1894, while a buggy salesman, young Harvey met and helped Henry Ford, then devising a chassis for the gasoline motor. Six years later he founded Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., with 17 employes. In three decades he was paying 20,000 workers in the U. S., 20,000 Liberians on African rubber plantations. Last year his company made $9,300,000. Besides Ford, his closest friend was the late great Thomas Alva Edison. A little man, shy, well-groomed, he raised horses, and dairy cows...
...interesting test of the corrector's ability to judge impartially. It may be that on receipt of his post card, with another added for good measure from University Hall, the southern vacationer will find himself free to continue studying history for the rest of the year in Palm Beach...
Among the posteards enclosed in the History I exam books, to be returned with the grade, was one bearing the address "Boylston Hall Library. Cambridge," and another "South Lake Trall, Palm Beach, Florida." The former was got picked with the idea of playing up Boylston Hall as an ideal winter resort, but rather to offer contrast instead...