See Also: Dzerzhinsky, Feliks (Edmundovich)(encyclopedia)
Firestone, Harvey S(amuel)(encyclopedia)
Blumberg, Baruch S(amuel)(encyclopedia)
Behrman, S(amuel) N(athaniel)(encyclopedia)
Paley, William S(amuel)(encyclopedia)
Firestone Tires(law)
FIRESTONE Credit Union(finance)
FIRESTONE COMMUNITY Credit Union(finance)
FIRESTONE LAKE CHARLES Credit Union(finance)
harvey(medicine)

Firestone, Harvey S(amuel) (sh) and Dzerzhinsky, Feliks (Edmundovich) (sh)


Firestone, Harvey S(amuel) (sh)




born Dec. 20, 1868, Columbiana, Ohio, U.S.
died Feb. 7, 1938, Miami Beach, Fla.

U.S. industrialist.

Firestone established a retail tire business in 1896 and in 1900 formed a company to sell rubber carriage tires. In 1904 his business began manufacturing automobile tires. Sales to Ford Motor Co. helped put Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. at the top of the U.S. tire industry. Firestone promoted the use of trucks for hauling freight and lobbied for the construction of vast highway systems. He ran his company until 1932, when his son replaced him. Firestone was purchased by Bridgestone Tire Co., a Japanese firm, in 1988.


Dzerzhinsky, Feliks (Edmundovich) (sh)




born Sept. 11, 1877, Dzerzhinovo, near Minsk, Russian Empire
died July 20, 1926, Moscow, Russia, U.S.S.R.

Russian Bolshevik leader, head of the first Soviet secret-police organization.

Son of a Polish nobleman, he was repeatedly arrested for revolutionary activities beginning in 1897. After the Russian Revolution of 1917, he headed the newly created Cheka, which became Soviet Russia's Security-police agency. He organized the first concentration camps in Russia and acquired a reputation as a ruthless and fanatical communist. In 1924 he was given control of the Supreme Economic Council.