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Last summer the citizens of Kenosha, Wis., gave Charles Williams Nash a public celebration in honor of the 20th anniversary of his removal from Detroit. A farmer until he was 28, a buggy maker in his 40's, the robust, hard-headed motorman stepped down from the presidency of General Motors Corp. at 52 to make his own car under his own name. In the two decades since he moved to Kenosha, his Nash Motors Co. has made more than 1,100,000 cars, paid more than $110,000,000 in dividends...
...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...
These two kids, a girl from a Madison, Wisconsin high school, and a boy from Kenosha, upstate, who came together at Wisconsin to take lessons from Prof. William C. Troutman, are doing very well for themselves...
...Nash-A team of Kenosha, Wis., defending champions, were put out in the first round. So were the Cudahy Puritans of Denver, another favorite...
...Kenosha, Wis., dissatisfied with his $35 weekly salary as purchasing agent for the Snap-On Tool Co.. Andrew B. Kotlarek, 34, eked it out for three years with purchasing agent checks to John K. Leander of the Economy Press. Universal Sales & Supply Co. and Leander Sales Co., Frank Kotten of the General Abrasive Products Co., Carl Hellen of the United Screw Products Co., all of which were really Andrew B. Kotlarek. Last week he was caught...