PHOTO COURTESY OF THE TUBMAN FAMILY
Glasses raised in a champagne summit, William V.S. Tubman toasts Harvey Firestone, Jr., at a dinner in the Terrace Room of the Mayflower Hotel in Akron, Ohio in October 1954. Firestone was arguably the second most powerful man in Liberia, given the singular importance of his rubber operation on the Liberian economy.
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