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Josephs, the new president, is a director of six of the nation's large business firms and a trustee of an equal number of leading philanthropic and civic agencies. Among the business groups with which he is associated are Consolidated Edison and J. P. Morgan...
...definite cleavage seems to be taking place between the mentality of a public, and a Congress, which was nursed on tales of Columbus, Edison, the Wright brothers, etc., and the mentality of the scientists themselves, who can hardly lose sight of the enormous preponderance of unpublicized pipe-dreams. Since all the more romantic advance of science are found in retrospect to have been impeded by forces of malice and darkness, it is perhaps not surprising to see some present-day pessimists accused as traitors or, at best, as imbeciles. One consequence may well be a trend towards blind sponsorship...
...London's first two public lavatories ("Public Waiting-Rooms"), established the Royal College of Music. Through its encouragement of the tinning industry, it helped make tinned meat a part of the British diet; through its public lectures, it introduced the nation to such modern wonders as the Edison phonograph...
...years many similar though smaller plans for Chicago have died through lack of interest. What inspires Chicagoans about the Rubloff-Owings concept is the fact that influential businessmen are behind the project. Among them: Hughston M. McBain, chairman of Marshall Field & Co., Willis D. Gale, chairman of Commonwealth Edison, and Arthur T. Leonard, president, Chicago Association of Commerce and Industry. The sponsors feel that financing will not be a major problem. One suggested plan: establishment of a nonprofit corporate body eligible for city, state and federal land-clearance grants, plus "interested" Eastern insurance money...
Husband's Mite. In Hamilton, Ohio, denying charges of nonsupport, Edison Hughes was asked what he had given his family, answered, "Well, I took some wine home to settle the wife's nerves," got six months in jail...