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...June, Floyd Leslie Carlisle served notice on the N. E. L. A. that it must purge itself if it wished to avoid stringent Federal supervision. Floyd Carlisle comes from that centre of natural power, upstate New York. He is the robust board chairman of six companies (one of them, Niagara Hudson, is world's largest producer), speaks for the Morgan utility interests, is the nation's No. 1 power tycoon. Last week he and Board Chairman Bernard Capen Cobb of Commonwealth & Southern Corp. did something about it. They invited the nation's utility tycoons to a dinner...
Floyd Leslie Carlisle, board chairman of Niagara Hudson Power Co, who marched down from Watertown. N. Y. to Manhattan to become board chairman of Consolidated Gas Co., a director in National City Bank and the most potent man in the Morgan-Drexel-Bonbright utility holding company. United Corp., was elected a director of United Gas Improvement Co., whose Philadelphia. Connecticut and New Jersey properties flank the Morgan system...
Died. William Tarbell Ransom. 86, president of Niagara Textile Co.; in Lockport, N. Y. Told that the U. S. climate was unfavorable to linen weaving, doubting Ransom in 1899 started a mill and the U. S. linen weaving industry (now about 8,000,000 sq. yd. yearly...
...happened that this year on the same Saturday, Harvard, Yale, and Cornell played three of these small college teams, respectively Buffalo, Bates, and Niagara. Harvard won 66-0, Yale played Bates a scoreless tie, and Cornell managed to beat Niagara 7-0. The Bates game with Yale and the valiant fight that the Dave Morey coached team made at New Haven did much to curtail the criticism this year. Sports writers were agreed that on the actual play Bates was stronger...
...Chicago, Mrs. Bessie Smolen sued for divorce because her husband had left home two years ago, saying he was going over Niagara Falls in a barrel. For two years she had watched newspapers in vain for news of the event...