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...late Col. Henry Woodward Sackett, Manhattan libel lawyer: $1,215,318, to Cornell University of which he was a trustee and frequent benefactor (some $900.000), and to relatives and learned societies...
Germany?Frederic Moseley Sackett...
...Frederic Moseley Sackett Jr. at Berlin? Improbable. He is more addicted to industrialism than to art, to gas & oil than music. Coming from Kentucky, he might, however, patronize Negro spirituals in Berlin...
Water, Bananas. First reply to the Sackett speech from a Power man was by George N. Tidd, president of American Gas & Electric Co. He arose in Berlin to thank the Ambassador for calling public attention (and public sympathy, perhaps) to the high cost of distributing Power. By way of adroit analogy he mentioned water, which costs nothing at its source, and bananas. "The cost of the banana on the tree is infinitesimal, yet by the time it has been gathered and transported the ratio is nearer 1,500 than...
...Ambassador Sackett was president (1907-1912) of Louisville (Ky.) Gas Co. and Louisville Lighting Co. (both sold in 1913 to the H. M. Byllesby interests and now operated as Louisville Gas & Electric...