Word: edisonizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...When they first married, Inventor Edison, then a telegrapher, taught his wife the Morse code. Now on her deaf husband's hand Mrs. Edison transmits unheard conversation by tapping dots and dashes...
...dinky, funnel-stacked, wood-burner chuffed into Smith's Creek station, laboriously pulling its coaches. Out of one coach was helped a shag-browed, stooped old man. He eyed the station signboard, recalled his onetime precipitous arrival at the same platform, smiled ruefully. He was Inventor Thomas Alva Edison. Nearby a lean, keen-eyed man stood beaming. He it was who had staged this performance. From afar he had brought the properties-the locomotive, cars and station.* Into the deaf inventor's ear he shouted welcome.† He was Friend Henry Ford. This was only Stage-Setter Ford...
Later in the week stockholders of Boston Edison sourly wished their company had never decided to split up its stock. The Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities unexpectedly refused to grant the reduction in par value, publicly scolded the company for its rate charges, its dividend prices, and, most important to stockholders, for the price of its stock. While the Department was meeting the stock had tumbled from 375 to 360, then after the decision became known went to a low of 299, later rallied...
...President Hoover goes to Detroit for Henry Ford's dedication of the Edison Laboratories; Oct. 22-goes to Cincinnati for celebration of the opening of the $100,000,000 improved Ohio River waterways; Oct. 23-inspects Louisville Dam; Oct. 24-in Washington pushes button to open new Mount Hope Bridge connecting Bristol and Newport...
Last week Editor & Publisher turned specifically upon Edward L. Bernays, able Manhattan publicist (see above). Mr. Bernays, the magazine noted, had mailed "one of his familiar handouts" to New York newspapers, announcing that he was ready to make arrangements for newsgatherers when they journeyed to Dearborn, Mich., for the Edison-Ford celebration of light's golden jubilee. What gave rise to Editor & Publisher's wrath was the fact that Mr. Bernays' letter mentioned Herbert Clark Hoover. Commented Editor & Publisher:-''If Mr. Bernays were commissioned to make press arrangements for an address by the chief executive...