Word: edisons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan, the President stopped at Newark to sit in a meeting of New Jersey's National Emergency Council presided over by Charles Edison, son of the late great inventor. Said the President in an informal speech: "I want to say just one word about the usefulness of what we are doing. There is a grand word that is going around, 'Boondoggling.' It is a pretty good word. If we can boondoggle ourselves out of this Depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come...
...years ago. Europe assumes that such was their achievement, ignoring Thomas Alva Edison. Invincibly bourgeois and perfectly satisfied with their large business in making still films and plates, the Brothers Lumière left the invention of the cinema to stew for years in a shambles of litigation. The basic invention, they considered, was that of George Eastman who in 1889 produced sheets of celluloid film with which motion pictures could be made and were bound to be made by someone as soon as the necessary machine was tinkered into shape. The idea was patented as early...
Married. Mina Miller Edison, 69, widow (second wife) of Thomas Alva Edison, daughter of the late Co-Founder Lewis Miller of the Chautauqua Institution (TIME, Jan. i. 1934); and Edward E. Hughes, 73, retired lawyer and steelmaker of Franklin, Pa.; in Chautauqua...
...President George A. Hughes of Chicago's Edison General Electric Appliance Co., which just electrified the White House kitchen, reported business 100% better, denied that the New Deal was in any way responsible, predicted a Roosevelt defeat in the 1936 campaign...
...instigation of the company, Dentist Lautenbach had signed the papers necessary to permit Mr. Davis to participate in the trustees' action. He served without fee. But since he is also counsel to the Edison Electric Institute, Lawyer Davis jumped at an opportunity to take the Public Utility Act to court-particularly an opportunity in which the constitutional defense will be in the hands, not of the Government, but of lawyers for an investment trust which would prefer to see American States liquidated rather than reorganized...