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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...William Lieb, operating Vice President of the New York Edison Co., who has made New York the model light and power city of the world. Over 30 years ago, when Lieb was just out of Stevens Tech, he got a job with Thomas A. Edison. The firm had a contract to build a great electrical plant in Italy. "Send Lieb," said Edison. He was only 22, but he did the job and stayed in charge of the Italian company for 12 years. Lieb's story, together with those of the 13 previous recipients of the Edison Medal, is told...
...because the Evening Journal printed an editorial about Boss Murphy's 7-million dollar British war contract...
...That Boss Murphy did enter into partnership with one Hartog in securing a British Government war contract...
...That during the time Boss Murphy was interested in this fat British Government contract the Tammany men in Congress preserved a practically unanimous silence about Ireland, or about any other topic which the British Government felt sensitive about...
...forget that British Govern-ment contract. It's all true. Murphy's libel suit is a four-flushing bluff. He knows it's all true. Remember that when you go to the polls...