Word: edisons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Admiral Yarnell last week Acting Secretary of the Navy Charles Edison said, "You were awarded the Distinguished Service Medal [Aug. 28, 1939] for exceptional ability, courage, tact. . . in . . . handling with the greatest skill . . . the many delicate situations that arose during the continued emergency in China. . . . The Secretary of the Navy regrets...
...destroyers and would have to man them for Neutrality patrol, his military measures were not extreme. They did leave the inference that Franklin Roosevelt wanted to be prepared to fight-if not against Naziism, at least for Neutrality. Said Acting Secretary of the Navy Charles Edison, explaining why he would rather keep the Atlantic Squadron near home than convoy U. S. refugees from Europe: "Well, you have seen the reports of submarines in the Caribbean, haven...
...Roosevelt telephoned to Secretary of State Hull at the Carlton Hotel, also to Under Secretary of State Welles, Secretary of War Woodring, Acting Secretary Edison of the Navy. Acting Secretary of the Treasury* John Hanes was roused. Lights went on in all Washington's key executive offices. Before breakfast time, the President was ready with the only gesture he could think of in the face of world disaster: a plea to Germany, Poland, Britain, France, Italy to refrain from bombing "open" cities and noncombatants. Within a few hours the heads of all these nations replied, in a chorus that...
Vice President & Managing Director Edison Electric Institute New York City...
Until their bosses began stepping off trains and planes later in the week, Messrs. Welles, Hanes and their Council of Preparedness met every day: Acting Navy Secretary Charles Edison, Acting War Secretary Louis Johnson, Acting Attorney General Thurman Arnold, Naval Chief of Operations Harold Raynsford Stark, Army Chief of Staff George Catlett Marshall, technicians, advisers, legal men, planners...