Word: tiredly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...service less than a year, was not eligible. Then why not one of the gentlemen at La Rochelle,* St. Etienne, Tananarive**? The Negro protestants feared that their race was to be deprived of its highest diplomatic post now that Liberia has given important rubber concessions to the Firestone Tire and Rubber...
...moments an article, "Do We Need a Mussolini?" contributed to the Sunday Pictorial by Lord Rothermere, its founder, who opined that he could think of three Englishmen of the calibre of II Benito: 1) The Rt. Hon. Sir Eric Campbell Geddes (TIME, March 1, BUSINESS), Chairman of the Dunlop Tire and Rubber Company and Allied Companies, First Lord of the British Admiralty (1917-18); 2) The Rt. Hon. Reginald M'Kenna, Chairman of the Midland Bank, First Lord of the Admiralty (1908-11); 3) Sir Samuel Hardman Lever, Financial Secretary to the Treasury...
Fifty-year-old Sir Eric Geddes* returned to the U. S. last week. He came as a businessman, chairman of the Dunlop Tire & Rubber Co.,† to inspect their plants in Buffalo. Pressmen, scenting soapstone, pressed him for a statement on rubber. They got it in quick, definite sentences that comported strangely with his southern U. S. accent, which he had picked up as a youth working in southern lumber regions and on the B. & O. He said...
...Tire prices were fixed just before Jan. 1 at about 40% higher than prevailed last summer. Last week two large manufacturers announced reductions. The list of the United States Rubber & Tire Co. dropped 10% on first line tires, 3½% to 7½% on second line makes. President Harvey Firestone of the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. ordered a 5% to 12% abatement in his first line prices...
Married. The divorced wife of the Marquess of Queensberry,* formerly Irene Richards of the Gaiety Theatre, London, to Sir James Hamet Dunn of London; in Paris. Died. George M. Stadelman, 52, President of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co., Vice President of the Rubber Association of America, pioneer U. S. rubber manufacturer, onetime carriage tire salesman; at Akron, Ohio, suddenly, possibly as result of a shock sustained when thugs not long ago forced Mr. and Mrs. Stadelman to aid them in ransacking the Stadelman home...