Word: edisons
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...wish when you come to publishing any news or comments on the experiments that the Edison Company are trying at Soldiers Field for lighting the Stadium gridiron, that you would correct a false impression which the articles in the newspapers have given, that the purpose of this lighting, if installed, is to have evening practice in addition to the practice we already have...
What is "adequate" preparedness? Who shall be the "experts" into whose hands this nation shall give its future? Thomas Edison, Major-General Wood or the Du-Point Powder Co.? Against whom, against what, are we thus "adequately" to prepare? Have we attained such internal unity among out sixty or more nationalities, have we even utilised one-half of the potentiality of such nationalities in building up world federation, that we should now take up in despair this old man's outworn creed and method from the war ruined hands of Europe...
...pacifist friends think that the whole future of the country will be in the hands of "Thomas Edison, Major-General Wood, and the DuPont Powder Co." This is far from true for only the military future will be shaped by these capable people assisted by a large, additional force of military experts. Only by the assurance of a strong defensive policy can the other national interests develop unhampered...
...heading over your editorial "A Maxim Silencer" is also in bad taste for it goes far from silencing. Preparedness does not mean militarism. Let me refer you to the articles of William Howard Taft in the Saturday Evening Post of June 5 and of Thomas Edison in the New York Times of May 30. Both of these advocate large supplies of ammunition without militarism...
...Edward B. Lloyd, of the Common-wealth Edison Company of Chicago, will lecture in Emerson J this afternoon at 2.30 o'clock on the subject "Analyzing the Market for the Sale of Electricity." This lecture, which is under the auspices of the Graduate School of Business Administration, will be open to the public...