Word: edisons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...size of the gift-$158.000-surprised many people but pleased none more than it did a gentle, plump-faced old lady who helped in the campaign. Mrs. Thomas Alva Edison remembers the earliest days of the Institution. Her father. Lewis Miller, an Akron inventor, founded it with the help of Bishop John Heyl Vincent and there in 1885 Tom Edison paid court to Mina Miller. Later Inventor Edison be came honorary president of the Chautauqua Literary & Scientific Circle which for years scattered books for home reading over the marble-topped parlor tables of the land...
Point at issue was whether electric current was subject to Illinois 2% occupation tax. Twenty power companies headed by Commonwealth Edison, Peoples Gas Light & Coke, and Central Illinois Public Service contended that current was an intangible, hence nontaxable. The State contended that current was a tangible and taxable commodity. The companies stood to lose in taxes, the State to gain in revenue, some $5,000,000 annually...
...catching frogs. That was not long after he learned to talk, in the Croatian hamlet of Smiljan where he was born. He studied physics and mathematics at two universities, got into telegraph engineering, went to Budapest, to Paris, to the U. S. in 1884 to work for Thomas Edison. Soon he had a research laboratory of his own. Four years later he patented the induction motor, first effective utilization of alternating current. He discovered the rotary magnetic field principle used today in the hydroelectric plants at Niagara Falls. He invented dynamos, transformers, induction coils, condensers, arc and incandescent lamps...
Energetic Matthew Scott ("Matt") Sloan, who resigned as president of New York Edison Co. in 1932. was an executive without a major executive post until he was elected chairman of Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railway last April. No railroad man, he spent two months inspecting nearly every mile of Katy's 4,956-mile system, meeting division agents, studying freight problems. Last week Katy gave "Matt" Sloan the post of president in ad dition to his chairmanship. The presidency has been vacant since the resignation last April of Michael Harrison Cahill...
...represented by officials of the striking union, thereby practically killing off the company union." Fact: The agreement called for workers to be represented by whichever union they belong to, whether A. F. of L. or the Auto-Lite Council Body (socalled company union). 3) TIME said of the Toledo Edison Co. settlement: "The union was recognized." Fact: The company formally recognized the union more than ten years ago, was completely willing to negotiate with union officials, whether employed by the company or not. 4) TIME said: "Union members were given preference for employment." Fact: Mediator Charles P. Taft II overruled...