Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Harvard Club of St. Louis, Mo.: Samuel D. Richards, Secretary, c-o Smith, Moore & Company, LaSalle Bldg., St. Louis...
...Chicago to practice law. He was a stocky, cheery, vigorous lad and got along very well. Before long he met one of the bright young men who had been associated down East with Thomas Edison in his electric-lighting companies. This young man, a short, brisk little Britisher named Samuel Insull, organized a Chicago Edison Company. The lawyer from Vermilion County, whose name was Roy Owen West, became Mr. Insull's attorney and put some money into the company. When Mr. Insull later organized a Middle West Utilities Company, Mr. West invested in that too. So did his wife...
Lawyer West, good mixer that he was, drifted naturally into politics. He became State chairman, then national secretary of the G. O. P., retaining his good law practice and investments the while. Samuel Insull, astute businessman that he was, became the public utilities potentate of the Midwest. When government regulation of public utilities was found necessary, Mr. Insull also drifted naturally into politics, in the role of large contributor to campaign funds. Illinois is a Republican State so Mr. Insull gave chiefly to Lawyer West's party, though when he was quizzed two years ago about contributing heavily...
...continued four years ago by popular election. His health kept Senator du Pont away from Washington most of last session. This session, though resigned, he will be more present than usual in his onetime-colleague's minds, since the Senate is taking an interest in his fight with Samuel Insull over a Kentucky waterfall...
...Samuel Parkes Cadman had last week been president of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America for four years and it was necessary that someone be elected to replace him. Accordingly, the delegates, convened last week in Rochester, N. Y., cast their votes and Bishop Francis J. McConnell, now of the New York Area of the Methodist Episcopal Church was discovered to have been made president...