Word: edisons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rector-elect was once arrested with Norman Thomas for unlawful assemblage at a Paterson, N. J. silk strike. His most notable exploit in eleven years as assistant rector of a Brooklyn church was to lose the parish its richest member, onetime President Matthew Scott Sloan of Brooklyn Edison Co. who objected to the young man holding labor demonstrations in front of his office. Rev. Lorin Bradford Young, 32, accepted the San Francisco call, packed up and went there...
...Queen Victoria's only remarks to a phonograph were discovered on a squeaky old Edison cylinder last week, found to be singularly up-to-date and topical. The record, made at Her Majesty's command, voiced her goodwill toward the then Emperor of Ethiopia, great empire-building Menelik. Carried to his wild capital, a reproduction of the cylinder squeaked Victoria's august words into his hairy ear, while the original lay until last week in the archives of London's Edison-Bell...
...Chicago a huge turkey was cooked in a huge oven in a huge (24 ft. long) electric range. It came out done to a turn. Satisfied, Edison General Electric Appliance Co. announced that the $5,000 stove to be installed in the White House kitchen, now being renovated at a cost of $152,000, had passed all tests, was fit to cook the President's breakfast or a dinner for 150 diplomats...
...That, however, was the only trouble the cool little utilitarian had with his answers. Freely he testified that up to June 30 the Power lobby had spent $301,365 on its fight against the Public Utility Bill. Half of this sum had been donated by holding companies, half by Edison Electric Institute. Two Manhattan law firms were paid $75,000 each. The famed publicity firm of Ivy Lee & T. J. Ross received $5,000 per month, plus traveling expenses. Mr. Gadsden himself, with a salary of $30,000 per year from...
...against $201,000,000 in the same period of last year. Some $300,000,000 will probably be offered in the next few weeks alone. Pending issues include: $75,000,000 for Consolidated Oil; $70,000,000 for Duquesne Light; $53,000,000 for Edison Electric Illuminating of Boston; $28,000,000 for B. F. Goodrich; $25,000,000 for Commercial Investment Trust, notable because it is a preferred stock issue not bonds. More than four-fifths of all current financing is refunding-swapping expensive money raised in the past for the abnormally cheap money of today. Usually the ratio...