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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spot was its little known President Francis Goodwin Smith, whose mustache and bald head are in the best Peter Arno tradition. A soft-spoken New Englander of 57, President Smith is a self-made man who became general manager of Hartford-Empire's predecessor, Hartford-Fairmont Co., in 1915. He owns only a small block of stock in Hartford-Empire; most of it belongs to the Houghton family (Corning Glass Co.) and Beech-Nut Packing Co. Beech-Nut created the company in 1912 while looking for a good glass jar machine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GOVERNMENT: Gob and Suction | 12/26/1938 | See Source »

...read carefully prepared papers on subjects like &Art in Literature.& In the same category belong Nashville's Friday Morning Literary Club, which began as the Tea and Repartee Club 43 years ago, San Francisco's Cap and Bells (200 members) which assembles in the swank Fairmont Hotel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Great American Reader | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

Otto Emil Fiedler, Dayton, Ohio--Fairmont High School...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 243 Freshmen From Everywhere Win Scholarships | 9/23/1938 | See Source »

Otto E. Fiedler, 18, of Dayton; Fairmont School...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 34 SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS | 6/8/1938 | See Source »

...damage was the Santa Ana River, a gravel-filled gulley which usually dribbles placidly through the Santa Ana Mountains, 35 miles southeast of the city, across 20 miles of farming country to the sea just south of Long Beach. Last week the Santa Ana burst a dam at Fairmont Lake, roared five feet deep through the streets of Riverside. On the flatland it became a muddy torrent whose waters spread out ten miles wide, turning orchards, farms and villages into a churning sea in which 15 people drowned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: Temperamental Fit | 3/14/1938 | See Source »

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