Word: edisonizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Thomas Edison's European agent was the man who brought the young Tesla to the U. S. After his first job for Mr. Edison?an all-night job putting a steamer's lighting plant in commission?Mr. Edison ejaculated to an associate: "This is a damn good...
Rumored Name. One rumor has the new Ford model named "Edison," after Thomas Alva Edison, one of Henry Ford's few close friends...
...literature are bunk and all she is thinking of is three square meals and a suit of clothes. . . . Europe thinks we have some magic formula. It is really only that we live and let live, whereas Europe lives and lets starve. . . . Europeans only read about Ford, Rockefeller, Edison, portable tea-tables, shoes and jazz records, and are convinced Americans do not have to work to enjoy life. They are densely ignorant of our writers, but have profound respect for a Vanderbilt. Europe has copied our worst things- the ugly stupidity of our iron civilization. She is sacrificing her originality...
...contributed during the period of a few months preceding the primary, and all of it was borrowed by me from the Commonwealth Edison Co. pending reimbursement of the company from my own funds as soon as I could conveniently arrange...
...Colonel House of Boston." Prohibition Chief Lincoln C. Andrews saw himself tending bar to a furtive, thirsty Uncle Sam. Very few Gridiron perennials were dragged out but Coolidge Silence got its time-honored mention, as did the Coolidge electrical horse. The latter, however, was rechristened "Old Dynamo, by Tom Edison out of Electric Socket...