Ex-Mayor J. J. Kaufman, 1941 President of the Tacoma Chamber of Commerce, receives a framed check and an alarm clock as his term expires during the 57th annual dinner meeting of the Chamber of Commerce on December 29, 1941, held at the Hotel Winthrop. Mayor Harry Cain (not pictured) earlier had presented the alarm clock to Mr. Kaufman because the chamber president had slept through one of chamber manager Thad Stevenson's sales talks in a steamship company's San Francisco office. Harry L. Brown, candy manufacturer, was selected by the chamber's Board of Trustees to succeed Mr. Kaufman as chamber president. (T.Times 12-30-41, p. 1, TNT 12-30-41, p. 1) ALBUM 11.

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