Word: scattergood
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Bureau of Power & Light acquired twp big generating stations, 7,600 mi. of line, 185,000 new customers and 800 new city employes. Few days before at a large 7 a. m. breakfast in the Los Angeles City Hall cafeteria, the Power Bureau's general manager, Ezra Frederick Scattergood, had handed President Addison Blanchard Day of Los Angeles Gas & Electric Corp. a check for $46,340,000. Private Powerman Day had handed Public Powerman Scattergood a deed to all his company's electric properties free & clear of debt. Los Angeles now had the largest municipally-owned power system...
...Public Powerman Scattergood, the $46,000,000 deal crowned a 35-year-old dream. Born 65 years ago on a New Jersey farm which had been in his Quaker family since 1683, Mr. Scattergood learned about power at Rutgers (Class of 1893), became a Master of Mechanical Engineering at Cornell, went South to teach at the Georgia School of Technology. But the tuneful libel on Georgia Tech could be applied only to Engineer Scattergood's health, which was so badly wrecked after two years that he had to ramble off to Southern California...
Fires of ill-feeling were kindled when Maurice P. Davidson and Tenement Housing Commissioner Langdon W. Post, as spokesmen for New York's utility-hating Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia. and Superintendent Ezra Frederick Scattergood of the Los Angeles municipal power plant made speeches declaring that the only hope of getting reasonable utility rates was to start public plants in competition. For this breach of promise, half a dozen U. S. utility men refused to participate in the discussions. Floyd Carlisle of Niagara Hudson Power subsequently took occasion to declare that in spite of its municipal plant, Los Angeles had neither...
Fletcher's absence means that Robb and Kane will have to do some hard training in the hurdle events. Against Princeton the Yale hurdlers showed up about as well as the Crimson men did, that is a third in the low fences behind Howell and Scattergood and a second to Scattergood in the high. Harvard also scored a third in the high...
Among the many prominent national figures announced as speakers are included J. H. Scattergood '97, G. Sherwood Eddy, Harry E. Fosdick, John R. Mott, A. Ray Petty, J. Stitt Wilson, Charles R. Brown, Henry Sloane Coffin, Charles Taft, Ralph Harlow, William Cochran, and J. T. Stocking...