Word: edisonizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Russian is Joseph P. Day, famed auctioneer, present friend of the Manhattan Democratic organization. It was Mr. Day who bought the Tammany Hall property on 14th Street, who then sold it to the New York Edison Co., and who then turned the profits of the deal over to the new Tammany Hall as a graceful political gesture...
Last June there was graduated from the East Orange, N. J., High School one John Osborn Reid, 19, interested in science and planning to go to the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale. Often he had driven by the Edison Laboratories, only three miles from his home, wondered what the insides were like, speculated on the personality of Inventor Edison whom he had seen only in the cinemas. Last week he and 48 other boys, specially chosen as the "brightest" from each state and the District of Columbia, inspected the famed laboratory, met Thomas Alva Edison, matched knowledge in what...
Despite prophecies that the winner of the contest would mysteriously become a "second Edison" at once, and rumors that Inventor Edison would turn all his duties over to the "brightest bright boy" and then retire, the contest was held for no such spectacular reason. Its purpose was described in the rules as "to stimulate the interest of the youth of America in mental development, with particular emphasis on scientific matters, and, more generally, in the high ideals that make for the highest type of American manhood." When reports that he would retire continued, Inventor Edison said, "I never intend retiring...
When in the middle of the week Candidate Reid and his 48 competitors entered the Edison plant for their official reception, they found speakers' platforms, microphones, chairs, benches. Pale, a little nervous, the boys sat down. Spectators commented on the normalcy and healthfulness of their appearance, were amused as they recognized the drawl of the south, the slur of the west. Ranging in age from 15 to 21, the boys had come from all classes, from farms, towns, cities. There was the son of the Czecho-Slovakian consul at Pittsburgh, the son of a bishop, a boy brought...
First to speak was Inventor Edison. He was unusually nervous as in clear, precisely accurate words, he welcomed the boys and explained there was "no suitable yardstick which can positively determine the relative value of one human being as compared to another." Then as a surprise each boy was given a combination radio-phonograph, said to be valued at $400. When the speeches were over they filed up to the platform, spoke their names into a microphone, shook hands with all of the Committee except Col. Lindbergh who stood back and nodded politely. When Candidate Reid went up there...