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...Charles Williams Nash was a carriage trimmer in Flint Road Cart Co. Two decades later he was president of General Motors, with Walter P. Chrysler working under him. In 1916 he left General Motors, spent $5,000,000 for the old Rambler automobile plant at Kenosha, Wis. By 1926 he had built 500,000 Nashes and his company had earned $80,000,000 on its original investment. Last year, at 70, Chairman Nash, reputedly worth $100,000,000, celebrated his golden wedding anniversary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Happiness & Kings | 11/4/1935 | See Source »

Robert M. Coquillette, age 16, of 816 Belmont avenue, Flint, Mich. He attended Flint Central High School. He is the son of Leon W. Coquillette, member of the faculty of General Motors Institute of Technology. He was valedictorian of his class, was a member of the student council, a member of the debating team, president of the band, was on the staff of the school annual, and was a leader in school clubs. This year he won the D. A. R. prize in the city of Flint for receiving the highest mark in a high school competitive examination in United...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 10 CONANT FELLOWS AND 23 SCHOLARS SELECTED | 9/1/1935 | See Source »

FREE SPEECH PLEA Syracuse's Flint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Midway Man | 6/24/1935 | See Source »

...FLINT DEMANDS TRUTH IN TEACHING Boston's Marsh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Midway Man | 6/24/1935 | See Source »

...room at the forge plant. Hudson has a glee club and a band. General Motors has an orchestra and a chorus of 400, some of them foundrymen, some division managers, some electroplaters and one a patent attorney. Buick men sing in the Industrial Mutual Association Glee Club in Flint. Ford has no chorus, no orchestra of its own but boys in the Henry Ford Trade School are proud of their German Band. Ford uses the regular Detroit Symphony for its radio concerts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: May Amateurs | 6/3/1935 | See Source »

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