Word: sloane
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Famed NELA (National Electric Light Association) last week convened at Atlantic City for its 52nd convention and exhibition. There able Matthew S. Sloan, head of New York Edison Co., said that the electric industry could well grant lower rates on current for domestic use, that such rates would result in greater use of vacuum cleaners, of electric irons, clothes washers and other household electric appliances, that rate reductions were always followed by pleasing increases in amounts of current consumed. Delegates also heard Oklahoman J. F. Owens, head of NELA's publicity, concede that there was "food for thought...
...General Motors last week became a fact. As in many a domestic merger, the emphasis given denials forecast a deal of large proportions. Thus, last week, no less than three presidents journeyed to Wiesbaden* to sign the contract. They were: the President of General Motors Corp. (Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr.); the President of General Motors Export Co. (James David Mooney); the President of Fisher Bodies Corp. (Frederick J. Fisher), chief of the seven money-minting Fisher brothers...
...exhibition. Patterning after the Paris Salon des Independants in its opposition to tight orthodoxies, the Society of Independent Artists provides a more exciting display than conservative bodies like the National Academy. Such reputable painters as John Taylor Arms, Pop Hart, Robert Henri, Leon Kroll, Walter Pach. John Sloan (president of the Society) and Claggett Wilson were represented. Among other memorable contributions were Olive Rush's delicate water colors, tonal hints of New Mexican scene and character. Rudolph Tandler showed a briskly drawn and water-colored lighthouse. Attuned to the Moon by Madeline S. Pereny was a rhythmic arrangement of four...
...sights to see. There was drabness on one hand, pomp on the other. Mr. Soglow grew with the former, protected by a wise detachment. Determined to study painting, he attended the Art Students' League of New York, where fundamentals are taught proficiently and inexpensively. There John Sloan was his teacher...
President of the new association is Charles A. Sloan, formerly in charge of broadcasting for the New York World. Herbert Bayard Swope, retired executive editor of the World, was reported to have given advice on the enterprise but he denied having any formal connection with it. The former Swopian Secretary, Miss H. A. Millar, is secretary of the new company...