Word: edisonizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Miss Keller, regretting her useless ears more than her useless eyes, informed Thomas Edison (himself deaf): "If I were a great inventor like you, Mr. Edison, I would invent an instrument that would enable every deaf person to hear." "Oh you would, would you?" said he. "Well. I think it would be a waste of time. People say so little that is worth listening...
...with beauty, as they saw it. Their hope is that they may lull you into flattering agreement or sting you into critical dissent." Contributors noted: Editor Henry Hazlitt, Literary Editor of the New York Evening Sun; Psychologist Joseph Jastrow; Financier Matthew S. Sloan. President of the New York Edison Co. Fat was the fledgling Century (160 pages) few (6) its pages of paid advertising. Price: 75? the copy, $3 a year...
John Davison Rockefeller Jr. was in Detroit attending Edison celebrations. It was said that he had been quietly liquidating for some weeks...
...Sunday magazine of the New York Herald Tribune. Later Mr. Young showed her through his General Electric Co. laboratories at Schnectady. Then Mr. & Mrs. Nicholas Frederic Brady (copper, public utilities) took her in their private railroad car to Henry Ford's party at Dearborn, Mich., for Thomas Alva Edison. John Davison Rockefeller III, four months out of Princeton, pausing in China on his way to the Institute of Pacific Relations at Kyoto, said: "I told father I was due in New York Sunday, Dec. 1, to be ready to begin work [in his father's office] Monday...
Marmon Motors Co., down from 104 to 36.* Bear argument: Earnings, quarter ending May 31, 1929, $4.12; quarter ending Aug. 31, 17?. Poor outlook for all motors. United Corp., down from 75½ to 49¾* Bear argument: General inflation of utilities, exemplified by the Boston Edison case (TIME...