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Married. Roger Stanley Firestone, son of Rubberman Harvey Samuel Firestone; and Mary Seagrave Davis, daughter of U. S. Circuit Court Judge J. Warren Davis; in Lawrenceville...
...Because Rubberman Benjamin Franklin Goodrich, sometime physician, had been dead 18 years, no one at B. F. Goodrich Co. realized that a chunky, broad-shouldered young man who reported for work at the Akron factory one day in 1906 was the founder's nephew. James Dinsmore Tew, just out of Harvard and anxious to prove his worth, did not take the trouble to remind his employers that B. F. Goodrich Co. had once been called Goodrich, Tew & Co. At the end of two years, when young Tew was making $75 a month, he asked for a raise...
...Street Journal told them that "in all probability the economic crisis has passed." They agreed thoroughly when he spoke against high taxes and said, "The cost of government constitutes the gravest obstacle to economic recovery." At dinner the members forgot that they were nonpartisan. Cheers drowned out hisses when Rubberman Firestone urged rhem to "set yourselves to stem the swelling tide . . . and work for the re-election of Mr. Hoover so that the advance of business may continue...
...Garden," a ballad, was composed by Mrs. Idabelle Smith Firestone, wife of Rubberman Harvey Samuel Fire stone. Mrs. Firestone is a mother of six, grandmother of three (who call her "Banny"), a longtime friend of Mrs. Henry Ford and Mrs. Thomas Alva Edison. Grey-haired, distinguished-looking Mrs. Firestone is fond of birdsongs, buggy-riding, playing on piano and organ. Improvising casually for her family several years ago, she played a melody which she said was inspired by her garden. They urged her to write it down. Arranged by Radio Orchestra Conductor William Merrigan Daly, with lyrics by one Lester...
...wanted again." Thus when he came accidentally across wireless waves, he took out a patent but, seeing no use at the time for this "etheric force," forgot it until he sold his right to Marconi in 1903. A need was his cue to start working; as when his friend. Rubberman Harvey Firestone sent to Liberia for materials. Forthwith Edison started his last experiments: U. S. rubber production from golden...