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...great trouble," once said the late Thomas Alva Edison (see p. 52), "is that preachers get the children from six to seven years of age and then it is almost impossible for others to do anything with them...
...chairman of the corporation and one-time (1923-30) president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, originator and one time (1901-23) director of the U. S. Bureau of Standards; of coronary occlusion (constriction of the heart ar-tery), immediately after dictating a tribute to his old friend Thomas Alva Edison (see below); in Boston. With Judge Robert Grant and President Abbott Lawrence Lowell of Harvard University, he was appointed by Governor Alvin T. Fuller of Massachusetts to review the evidence of the Sacco-Vanzetti case in 1927. Three months ago he said he hoped to live 100 years...
...what an extent the present world owes its color and character to Thomas Alva Edison, the press of the world will bear witness today. He will be praised as a benefactor of all mankind, as one of the greatest of all Americans...
...Thomas Alva Edison would never have uttered those words. He did not stand off and criticize the men of his era. He exemplified to the highest degree such U. S. qualities as the following...
Jubilee. That the sardonic writer may have been just, though badly characterizing, was suggested during the Golden Jubilee of the electric light bulb two years ago. The common man in many a land shut off his electric light and sat quietly in darkness for three minutes to honor Thomas Alva Edison, and doubtless had many a thought for which there had not been time before. When the world's lights, cinemas and roar commenced again, common men displayed their bad taste by effusions which culminated in George Michael Cohan's song which said...