Word: harvey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...next day it rained. The President, not displeased, spent hours thumbing reference books on rubber this-and-that, for Harvey S. Firestone Jr., son of the tire-man, was to present his Philippine report on the morrow...
...Harvey S. Firestone Jr. (son of the tire-potentate), who called on President Coolidge at White Pine Camp, told him what ought to be done for the rubber industry in the Philippines...
Recently a chunky, handsome young man sailed 10,000 miles through calm and stormy seas, returned (TIME, June 28). Last week he journeyed to White Pine Camp at President Coolidge's invitation. He presented his card: Harvey S. Firestone Jr. If such things were done, there might have been in one corner of the card: Son of famed tire-magnate; in another corner Princeton University, 1920; and finally, below his name in bold type: Extremely well-informed on rubber...
...Harry A. Garfield of Williams College. For the space of a lunar month they constitute The Institute of Politics. Last week President Garfield opened the proceedings of the Institute as chairman for the sixth time, benevolently urged 300 delegates assembled for discussion to discuss. Present and discursive were: Paul Harvey, onetime editor of the one-time International Interpreter, who popped a revisional proposal for the Dawes Plan; Sir Frederick Whyte, onetime president of the Indian Legislative Assembly, who ridiculed "the menace of Asia" to the Occident; Far Eastern expert and publicist Henry K. Norton; two statesmen who may be termed...
Thomas Alva Edison, intimate friend of Henry Ford and Harvey Samuel Firestone, spoke last week of another friend: "He was the most remarkable business man I have ever known...