Word: felton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...what, besides the vote, the 19th Amendment has brought them, U. S. women had to admit the results were not large-yet. Thirteen women have been elected to the House of Representatives. Two states (Montana and Texas) have had women governors. One woman, the late Mrs. Rebecca Latimer Felton of Georgia, sat by honorary appointment for two days in the U. S. Senate. To state legislatures 149 women have been elected. One woman has sat in the President's sub-cabinet. No woman has been appointed to the U. S. judiciary proper, though one now sits...
Died. Samuel Morse Felton, 77, board chairman of Chicago Great Western R. R. : at Chicago; after a paralytic stroke. Son of a railroad president, he went to Massachusetts Institute of Technology, began railroading in 1868 as a rodman. He worked for many a road in the East and South, in 1909 became president of the C. G. W. Appointed Wartime director-general of military railroads by Secretary of War Newton Diehl Baker, he supervised the shipping of men to the Atlantic seaboard, of railroad supplies to Europe. received the Distinguished Service Medal. the Cross of the Legion of Honor...
...apparatus. Just how they participated was not known until last week when it was revealed that I. T. & T. controls the new company with 62.9% of the voting and 55.4% of the non-voting stock against German General Electric's 31.1% and 39.3%. The remainder is owned by Felton & Guilleaume, affiliate...
Edison. Most prized award of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers is the Edison gold medal. Its recipients have included George Westinghouse. Alexander Graham Bell, Nikola Tesla, Michael Idvorsky Pupin, Robert Andrews Millikan. Last week in Manhattan it was given to tall, grey-haired Charles Felton Scott, 65, native Ohioan, electrical engineering professor in Yale University. In the field of power transmission his work has been noteworthy; professionally renowned is he for the Scott transformer which changes two-phase to three-phase alternating current...
Died. Mrs. Rebecca Latimer Felton, 94, oldtime Georgia feminist, only woman ever appointed to the Senate (she held an ad interim appointment for 22 hours in 1922); in Atlanta; of pneumonia...