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...businessmen gave their support to the New Deal earlier or more enthusiastically than Charles Edison, head of Thomas A. Edison, Industries: the fair-sized electrical apparatus business that the Edisons salvaged from the late great Thomas Alva's historic inventions. The Roosevelt Administration was not a month old when President Edison, whose politics were previously recorded as Republican, plastered the walls of the Edison plant in West Orange, N. J. with a message urging his 3,000 employes to "get going" behind President Roosevelt. "Buy something-buy anything-anywhere! Paint your kitchen. Send a telegram. Give a party...
...Director of the National Emergency Council and member of the National Industry Recovery Board. He was called in as consultant when the Federal Housing Act was being drafted, named FHA director for New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland. Last week President Roosevelt found a higher post on which Charles Edison might expend his zeal, named him Assistant Secretary of the Navy, a job vacant since the death of Henry Latrobe Roosevelt last February...
...Assistant Secretary of the Navy inherited none of the inventive genius of the Wizard of Menlo Park, but he did inherit his father's prodigious capacity for work. Since he graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1913, Son Charles has met the business problems of the numerous Edison enterprises as energetically as his famed father attacked technical problems in the laboratory. Frequently he could be found in his grey-walled office in West Orange for 17 hours at a stretch. He had his first opportunity to become acquainted with the U. S. Navy and his new chief during...
...were meeting. In one speech he persuaded them to accept a truce and go back to work. In 1934 he spent six months on the Pacific Coast with the shipping strike. Same year he was occupied with the A. & P. strike; in 1935 with the Chevrolet strike (Toledo), the Edison strike (Toledo), the Industrial Rayon strike (Cleveland), soft coal strike negotiations, the longshoremen's strike (New Orleans). In 1936 he has been busy with the rubber strike (Akron), building service strike (Manhattan), anthracite negotiations, gas strike (Toledo), shipping strike (San Francisco). In three years he has spent less than...
...Edward E. Hughes (relict of Thomas A. Edison): Governor Landon is one of the finest young men I have ever...