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May 4, 1940

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The Master

Geoffrey T. Hellman

Profile of Elmer G. Leterman, high-powered insurance salesman and exclusive agent of the Hawaiian Macadamia Nut Co. He went to Honolulu in 1937 as local …

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a reporter at large

SLIPS AND FALLS.

Robert Lewis Taylor

REPORTER AT LARGE about the convention held by the Greater N. Y. Safety Council, at Hotel Pennsylvania. The council was founded in 1936 by a handful of …

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