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...clear up any implication that the Navy had not been frank with Congress, the Senate Naval Affairs Committee last week had up Secretary Charles Edison. Admiral Harold Raynsford Stark, Chief of Operations, had lately declared his unremitting faith in the battleship over aircraft, urged Congress to steam ahead with battleship construction. But Secretary Edison had announced last fortnight that aircraft had a "temporary advantage over ships," had said the Navy would have to revise its ship designs. Last week Mr. Edison did a neat straddle. Said he: ". . . Battleships were, are and will be for many years the backbone...
Next week, when they go to the polls, voters will find no contest on the Democratic ticket. Unopposed for Governor is Secretary of the Navy Charles Edison...
Lively issue in Wall Street's adjustment to New Deal business standards is the scrap over competitive bidding for utility securities issues. Month ago hardbitten Chairman Floyd L. Carlisle of Consolidated Edison Co. of New York (which has sold $377,982,000 worth of securities since November 1935 through Morgan Stanley & Co.) took a step which would protect him from the future criticism of disgruntled stockholders who may favor competitive bidding. To his 128,791 stockholders he mailed a questionnaire...
Proudly Thomas Edison's home town, Port Huron, Mich., previewed this picture in three movie houses simultaneously on the eve of the 93rd anniversary of his birth. The Port Huron of the picture is a less appreciative human hive with no movie houses. Its citizens seem to have little else to do but torment Tom Edison. Even Tom's kindly father (George Bancroft) begins to look askance at his gifted offspring, who is universally called "addled" or "tetched." Mother Edison (Fay Bainter) explains the unhappy state of affairs: it is because "Tom is looking for causes, not effects...
...erstwhile tormentors cheer and wave, Tom chugs off to greater things, soon to be revealed in Edison, the Man (with Spencer Tracy) now in production...