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Bros.-Clyde Beatty Circus, playing Seattle, Tacoma and Aberdeen. He never failed to get a laugh when Kellams pulled him around in an old buggy and introduced him as "the mayor of Seattle...
Malcolm W. Strandberg, Tacoma, Washington--Lincoln High School, Tacoma...
...Dictatorship." Harry Bridges, president of the Pacific Coast District of the International Longshoremen's Association and biggest figure in maritime labor on the Pacific Coast, leads the drive of C.I.O. in the West. In Tacoma, Wash, the Long shoremen's union not only refused to join C.I.O. but wrote to all I.L.A. locals on the Coast...
...that class which can afford the car, the name means a profane, bespectacled young capitalist whose life has been a garage mechanic's dream. Errett Lobban Cord got his start in Los Angeles building "racing" bodies for junked Fords. He drove in dirt track races in Tacoma. He worked in a garage. In his early 20s he became a flash automobile salesman for the old Moon agency in Chicago. In 1924 he walked into the subdued Auburn company, made it hum, became its president in less than a year. He bought control of Duesenberg, the Lycoming motor works...
...Tacoma Lumberman John Philip Weyerhaeuser, whose 10-year-old son George was safely ransomed from kidnappers for $200,000 in May, 1935, established at Seattle's Children's Orthopedic Hospital an endowment in memory of 10-year-old Charles Mattson of Tacoma, murdered by a kidnapper two months ago (TIME, Jan. 11). George and Charles used to play together...