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...present but the American Apostolic Church in America sent their chief prelate, and the big warm room buzzed with the voices of General Motors' Sloan, General Electric's Gerard Swope, Ford's Sorensen, Pennsylvania Railroad's Atterbury, Baldwin Locomotive's Houston, Thomas A. Edison's son Charles, Theodore Roosevelt's son Kermit, Owen D. Young, Henry Morgenthau Sr. and dowagers galore. As Comrade Litvinoff waddled in to take his place beneath the crossed Red Flag and Stars and Stripes the "Star-Spangled Banner" brought all to their feet and few sat down when...
...worth of ambiguity, got down to cases only in the last ten minutes, when the Presiding Judge exclaimed: "It is agreed that the man whose extradition is asked-an old man and suffering from a serious malady-has been a great engineer and businessman and collaborator of Thomas A. Edison! He advanced the industrial progress of the world in an important way by producing cheaper electric current than was previously possible, thereby introducing electricity to many household and commercial uses. . . . "The unlimited credit given by the public to Insull has brought irreparable calamities and has created many victims, but Insull...
...Edison Co. of New Jersey sent young Ike Hoover to Washington to wire the White House for electric lights. It was a six-month job. President Harrison, skittish about electricity, asked Ike Hoover to remain, take charge of the "incandescents," the bells and pushbuttons. President McKinley made him chief usher. As major-domo of the White House he ran its social functions, stage-managed the ceremonious presentation of diplomatic credentials, arranged seating lists for dinners, kept a check on calling cards, directed Presidential receptions, herded the Cabinet about, told distinguished visitors, where to stand, what to say. As guardian...
Died. George Clinton Ward, 70, old-time railroader, president of Southern California Edison Co.; of pneumonia; in Los Angeles...
Last June the Federal grand jury in Chicago returned a secret indictment under the Bankruptcy Act against Samuel Insull, his son Samuel Jr., his brother Martin, now a fugitive in Canada, and eight others including President Harold Leonard Stuart of Halsey, Stuart & Co., President Edward John Doyle of Commonwealth Edison and Stanley Field of Continental Illinois National Bank. The five-pronged charge was that the Insulls & friends had transferred $2,500,000 from their Corporation Securities Co. between Nov. 2, 1931 and Jan. 20, 1932 when they knew their concern was already insolvent to the tune...