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Died. Robert J. Firestone, 57, brother of famed Rubberman Harvey Samuel Firestone, 61; of heart disease, in Cleveland. Until 1919, Robert was a vice president of Harvey's company; subsequently he engaged in local businesses...
...Sunday magazine section of the New'York Herald Tribune. Daniel Guggenheim and Nicholas Frederic Brady sent flowers. 2) Inspecting John Pierpont Morgan's famed library. 3) Dining with her great & good friends, the Owen D. Youngs. Next day she sailed for home on the lie de France with Rubberman Harvey Samuel Firestone, Archbishop Nicholas of Serbia, Publisher George Palmer Putnam and Cinemactresses Pola Negri, Alice Terry and Claire Luce among her shipmates...
Slender and inky black President Charles Dunbar Burgess King of Liberia welcomes nowadays many a white U. S. youth arriving to earn his fortune on the new and mighty plantations of U. S. Rubberman Harvey Firestone (TIME, Dec. 20, 1926). One such ambitious colonizer was Thomas B. Wells, 26, a Yale graduate. With his young wife he recently went out to what seemed a promising job on one of the Firestone plantations. There he contracted malaria. Prudent, he and his wife left Liberia, speeded home. Last week they were crossing the Atlantic aboard the French Line's majestic...
Lest U. S. motorists should begin to clamor prematurely for cheaper tires, Rubberman Henderson added hastily...
...Harvey Samuel Firestone Jr. since January have been in Liberia (Africa) inspecting the two 50,000 acre plantations of the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. and experimenting with their radio. Last week, on a wave length of 43.5 metres over a distance of 4,600 miles, Rubberman Firestone radiobroadcast to Akron, Ohio, news of the latest Firestone plantation operations. Men in the Akron plant heard and heeded the words of their president...