Word: edisons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Consolidated showed a 1935 sales increase of a little less than $5,000,000 but paid a little more than $5,000,000 in increased taxes and is going to court about a further city tax increase for 1936. Consolidated Gas also plans to change its name to Consolidated Edison, since about 75% of its revenue now comes from Electric Power & Light. On a $2 per share earning, the common last week sold at $34.50, a little more than 17 times earnings...
...adjacent positions of honor at all public functions, subscribe their names as patrons to the same good works, and support very nearly the same causes and matters of public policy. An Irishman who is a Knight of Malta was elected to the presidency of the $50,000,000 Boston Edison Company, after serving a mixed apprenticeship at Holy Cross and the very Harvard firm of Ropes, Gray, Boyden and Perkins. There is another who is a director on the board of Boston's dominant financial organization, the First National Bank. A third, who is also the most enthusiastic...
News to many a parent last week was this dictum by Mrs. Theodore Miller Edison, daughter-in-law of the late inventor: "In the minds of some, preparation for marriage too often is associated with the physical aspect of sex, whereas the philosophical and spiritual considerations are equally important. All three should develop together in the mind of the child. Erroneous [is the] belief that knowing the facts of life would destroy the innocence of their children. Certainly ignorance is a flimsy guaranty of innocence. Accurate knowledge can provide a much firmer foundation for a wholesome attitude toward life...
Arthur Edwin Kennelly, 74, professor emeritus of electrical engineering at Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, onetime assistant to Thomas A. Edison, codiscoverer of the radio-reflecting region of electrified air called the Kennelly-Heaviside Layer; the Mascart Medal, awarded every three years by the Societe Franchise des Electriciens: for contributions to pure science and for services on international commit tees whose efforts culminated last sum mer in the adoption of the centimetre-gram-second system of units by the Inter national Electrotechnical Commission. First U. S. scientist to receive the Mascart Medal, venerable Dr. Kennelly hoped its bestowal...
...Johns Hopkins University; the Henry Grier Bryant Gold Medal of the Geographical Society of Philadelphia: for being "scholarly and original in research, philosophical in his thinking, and concerned with the influence of geography on institutions and on society." Lewis Buckley Stillwell, 72, consulting engineer, onetime Westinghouse researcher; the Edison Medal (an award founded by friends and associates of the late great inventor): for "pioneer work in the generation, distribution and utilization of electric energy," especially alternating current, which Thomas A. Edison once vociferously disapproved...