Word: edisonizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...know that, Charles Edison, 36, smart son of smart Inventor Thomas Alva Edison, 79, by his second wife, has long been chairman of the directorate of many a company which his father organized. Father Edison has been a director of these same firms, and always their president. But their officers have been purely nominal, for Son Edison has been the chief operating executive. Last week they had traded titles-henceforth, President Charles, Chairman Thomas Alva. Announced their Vice President R. H. Allen: "From now on Thomas A. Edison will more and more pass his time working in his laboratory...
...Company. A few moments later the crowd roared the name of V. Biesiakiewicz, roadman for Wanamaker's as he romped over the 220-yard hurdles in 0:27 flat. Smith, an elevator man, won the broad jump as he had been expected to, with Biesiakiewicz third; the Brooklyn Edison Company took the medley race; one R. Jeha of the Reliance Insurance Company upset all predictions by jumping higher than anybody else. To John Wanamaker's a point score of 69; Pennsylvania Railroad was second with 52; then came Prudential Life, Otis Elevator, New York Stock Exchange. Reliance, Consolidated...
...still dislikes publicity. Last week arrested at Albuquerque, N. M., for cashing a worthless check, he protested in indignation that among his friends were Henry Ford, Edsel Ford, Russell Firestone (son of Akron's tireman), Thomas Edison, Governor Smith of New York, Publisher Harry Chandler of the Los Angeles Times...
President Coolidge ought to be grateful, for the seeming warehouse is really a newspaper office, and the baldish prophet is no obscure, senile wiseacre; he is Arthur Brisbane, able journalist. A machine invented by Thomas Alva Edison listens attentively to Mr. Brisbane's remarks; a respectful secretary transcribes his master's voice into typewritten copy; and the New York American, the Chicago Herald-Examiner, the San Francisco Examiner and many another newspaper owned by Publisher Hearst, to say nothing of some 200 non-Hearst dailies and 800 country weeklies which buy syndicated Brisbane, all publish what Mr. Brisbane...
...most remarkable business man" that Thomas Edison had ever known...