Word: edisons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TIME, Feb. 21, reference "Mr. Ford's Week," I note you refer to Edison's birthday party at West Orange, N. J. All other papers and magazines give it as Orange, N. J., which is not right...
...Eventually he reached his week's goal- Inventor Thomas Alva Edison's 80th birthday party at West Orange, N. J. Mr. Ford, genial, amiable, yelled newspapermen's questions into Mr. Edison's ear. Mr. Edison is quite deaf. Harvey S. Firestone, Akron rubberman, watched...
...into the cosy office in West 22nd Street, where the basement is jammed with part of Crusader Comstock's 61 carloads of assorted obscenity. He strove cheerfully to administer well the $15,000 per annum supplied him by John D. Rockefeller Jr., the Colgate (soap) family, Thomas Alva Edison and other earnest souls. He concentrated his efforts upon enforcing Section 1141 of New York's penal code, a famed paragraph lobbied through by the whiskered subject of the Suppression office's chief portrait. He suppressed Jurgen, famed allegory by James Branch Cabell. He did quite well until...
Today Thomas Alva Edison, most illustrious product of the Horatio Alger academy of success, reaches his eightieth year. And with the festival come congratulatory telegrams by the basket full: flowers--and Henry Ford. Honor comes to whom honor is due. For Edison is one of those fortunate geniuses who has received fame while he is still able to enjoy it. On him--as on only too few--are showered flowers for the living...
...might well say that a biography of this grizzled and vigorous octogenarian would include the origins of all the major scientific inventions of the last half century. Only when his achievements are recorded do his marvelous ingenuity and ability become clear. The name Edison has grown to be synonymous with the new era, not only because of his actual results which abound in daily life, but also because of his remarkable character which has never admitted defeat and which is based on the fundamental qualities of all that is best in human nature. The younger generation offers its congratulations...