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Thomas Alva Edison at his home in West Orange, N. J. was the recipient of the Rotary International Service Medal "in appreciation of a life of service to science, the arts, and humanity." While newsmen, photographers, waited after the ceremony he told a story: a man who suffered from a liver complaint went to Los Angeles for cure, recovered, started a sanitarium of his own. "Eighteen years afterward, the man died," declared Inventor Edison, "but before they could bury him his liver had got so strong they had to kill it with a club...
Suntanned, wearing a red rose in his lapel, swinging a walking stick, Thomas Alva Edison returned to his Llewellyn Park, N. J., home after wintering in Fort Myers, Fla. ; announced he would vote for Dry Senatorial Candidate Franklin W. Fort in New Jersey's primary election, remained mum on his rubber experiments. Mrs. Edison was a member of the Women's Committee backing Wet Candidate Dwight Whitney Morrow...
Outstanding, recent Carlisle events included: election to the directorate of New York Edison, of Consolidated Gas and of United Corp.; opening of the new hydroelectric generating plant at Conklingville. N. Y.; and the merger of Niagara Share Corp. with Marine Union Investors...
Consolidated Gas (of which New York Edison is a subsidiary) is the world's second largest public utility (American Telephone & Telegraph is first). Serving chiefly New York City, Consolidated supplies gas to 1,135,457 consumers and electricity to 2,335,772. Mr. Carlisle's election to its directorate was generally predicted following the death of the late Nicholas Frederic Brady (TIME, April 7).* Significance of Mr. Carlisle's appointment lay in the fact that he is the first member of the Up-State Niagara-Hudson utility group to secure a position in the Down-State Consolidated board; that through...
...Carlisle was not elected as Brady representative. Interests of the Bradys on New York Edison will be looked after by young James Cox Brady Jr., nephew of Nicholas; on Consolidated by Charles Stelle Brown, realtor...