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Into the study of Thomas Alva Edison at Llewellyn Park, N. J. last week walked Lieut. Richard T. Aldworth, U. S. A. retired, tall, solemn, redheaded director of Newark Airport. Three hours later he departed with fingers cramped from scribbling 25 pages of answers to the deaf inventor's questions; also with the knowledge that Inventor Edison proposes to attack the problem of flying in dirty weather. As preface to the interview Inventor Edison, who had summoned Lieut. Aldworth, piloted him across the room, read aloud to him the words on a brass plaque hanging on the wall: "There...
...assets. Empire's profits, however, have not been great; the preferred dividend was recently passed. Pickands, Mather & Co.'s entrance into the company was through acquisition of the holdings of William H. Davey of Mansfield, Ohio. New Empire president will be Paul Llewellyn, onetime president of Interstate Iron & Steel...
Coal strikes come when work-&-wage contracts between operators and miners expire. The present contract for the all-important anthracite fields* lapses Aug. 31. For three hot weeks in Manhattan a Union committee of six led by John Llewellyn Lewis, president of United Mine Workers of America struggled in secret session with an operators' committee of six led by William W. Inglis of Glen Alden Coal Co. to negotiate a new agreement. Last week the two committees emerged in friendly fellowship with a new contract for hard-coal mining which each acclaimed as a guarantee of long industrial peace...
Suntanned, wearing a red rose in his lapel, swinging a walking stick, Thomas Alva Edison returned to his Llewellyn Park, N. J., home after wintering in Fort Myers, Fla. ; announced he would vote for Dry Senatorial Candidate Franklin W. Fort in New Jersey's primary election, remained mum on his rubber experiments. Mrs. Edison was a member of the Women's Committee backing Wet Candidate Dwight Whitney Morrow...
...were last week more than 185 miles apart when simultaneously in each city met a rival faction of the United Mine Workers of America. Rarely before has U. S. Labor exhibited such a bitter intra-Union schism. In Indianapolis gathered a thousand "regular" delegates under big, hard-faced John Llewellyn Lewis, U. M. W. international president. At Springfield assembled 455 "rank-and-file" delegates bent on taking possession of U. M. W. and reorganizing...