Word: edisonizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the official count was announced it ran: Mrs. Cook, 940; Mrs. Hanger, 779. All on Mrs. Cook's ticket were elected except the nominee for Chaplain General. Mrs. Thomas A. Edison of New Jersey carried that office, 871-746, although she was not able to be present at the congress. Following the announcement of her election, Mrs. Cook made her first speech as President General. She came forward " in a becoming costume of blue moire silk and georgette crepe with an ankle length skirt. Her hat was of blue satin with a bandeau of white roses." Said...
Tonight at 7.30 o'clock in Harvard 1 Mr. M. L. Frederick of the General Electric Company will speak briefly on the opportunities open to college graduates in the business training course offered by the company in Schenectady, New York, and by the Edison Lamp Works in Harrison, New Jersey. Mr. Frederick will explain the conditions under which this course is given, and the occupations to which this study leads. The meeting is open to all members of the University...
...Alumni Association frequently has representatives from out-of-town establishments come to the appointment office to interview students who would be interested in possible employment in their companies. The next representative to visit the office will be from the Edison Lamp Works in Harrison, N. J. He will be at the office on April 12 to confer with men who are interested in accounting in the auditors department...
Said Thomas A. Edison: " I wish that the newspapers would print more of the kind of thing you see in The Literary Digest. That has been a great success. It has no scandal." This vexed The Daily News, New York: " Newspapers print the news. That's why they're called newspapers. That part of the news happens to be scandalous is the fault of the people who make it, not the fault of the newspapers." Readers of the San Francisco Chronicle get fun. No sooner had that journal completed a solve-the- mystery-detective-story Prize Contest than...
...sure, Mr. Edison denies any knowledge of Spanish or Mexican royalty in the family, but the newspaper statement, "Inventor descends in straight line from Aztec ruler," nevertheless shows him to be every inch a king...