Word: edisonizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sense the projects envisioned before the luncheon in Milan, last week, interested observers turned to a report on the Italian hydro-electric industry which was issued recently by Signor Giacinto Motta, managing director of the great firm which produces 30% of the electricity used by Italians, namely the Edison General Italian Electric Co. of Milan. Brisk and explicit, Signor Motta keynotes thus...
...Italian electrical industry is grouped about 12 major holding corporations, of which the Edison Company of Signor Motta in Milan is the largest, with the Hydro-Electric Company of Piedmont second and producing 17% of Italy's electric power...
...following persons and institutions are in favor of Herbert Clark Hoover's nomination: Senators Moses, Gillett, Jones, Shortridge, Edge; Representatives Burton, Fort, Albert Johnson, A. T. Smith; Amelita Galli-Curci, Christopher Morley, Emil Fuchs, Henry Ford, Thomas Alva Edison, Emory R. Buckener, George W. Wickersham, Louis Marshall, Elihu Root Jr., George Eastman; Michael Idvorsky Pupin, Will H. Hays; Secretaries Work, Wilbur, Jardine; Postmaster-General New; Assistant Secretaries Mills, Robinson, Brown; Governors Fuller of Massachusetts, Spaulding of New Hampshire, Green of Michigan, Brewster of Maine; the Hearst...
...Insull extended a courtesy to stockholders of his Commonwealth Edison Co. at Chicago. The annual meeting was scheduled, but stockholders were not expected to attend, for as is usual with great corporations, the shareholders express their votes through proxies. Yet many of Mr. Insull's people wished to know what would happen at this meeting. He let them know directly and immediately, as though they were actually present, by radio-broadcasting the entire proceedings of the meeting...
...visit John D. Rockefeller; watched the 88-year-old oilman play golf; said, "When I return to Germany I may write a sketch of Mr. Rockefeller." Mr. Ludwig recently let it be known that he considered the four greatest living U. S. persons to be Thomas A Edison, Jane Addams, Orville Wright, John D. Rockefeller...