Word: arkwright
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Divorced. Frederick Blantford Bate, Secretary-General of this year's Reparations Conference at Paris; by Mrs. Vera Arkwright Bate; in Paris...
Elected. Preston S. Arkwright, president of the Georgia Power Co., to be president of the National Electric Light Association...
Preston S. Arkwright, Atlanta lawyer, went into the office of President Henry Morrell Atkinson of the Georgia Railway & Power Co., asked him to sign certain securities. "Sign them yourself," said President Atkinson, and went on working. Politely Lawyer Arkwright insisted...
Last week on the Million Dollar Pier at Atlantic City, N. J., before 10,000 utility-men, and with more formality, Preston S. Arkwright (now president of the Georgia Power Co.) was installed as president of the National Electric Light Association...
...interesting test. A man without these gifts has seldom blazed out very brightly in the march of the Immortals through history, whatever his real achievements, and no man possessing them has ever been quite forgotten, although his major vocation in life was neither art nor literature. Who remembers Arkwright, Crompton and Stephenson, the chief pioneers in the industrial revolution which ushered in the entire mechanism of modern civilization? How long before the Wrights of the aeroplane, Bell of the telephone, Marconi of the wireless will be mere signposts marking the evolution of mechanical progress? They could not press agent themselves...