Insull: The Rise and Fall of a Billionaire Utility TycoonThis is a reprint of a previosly published work. It dewals with Samuel Insull, who was Thomas Edison's private secretary and founded the business of centralized electric supply. He organized the Edison General Electric Company. |
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Page viii
... Samuel Insull , I shall be content ; for then I shall have done all that a historian can hope to do , and all a historian has any right to do . If I have not failed dismally , getting to know Insull will be con- siderably easier for you ...
... Samuel Insull , I shall be content ; for then I shall have done all that a historian can hope to do , and all a historian has any right to do . If I have not failed dismally , getting to know Insull will be con- siderably easier for you ...
Page xi
... Samuel Insull , Jr. , a writ- ten contract which , though transferred from the State Historical So- ciety to the American History Research Center and finally to the University of Chicago Press , remained intact and provided the con ...
... Samuel Insull , Jr. , a writ- ten contract which , though transferred from the State Historical So- ciety to the American History Research Center and finally to the University of Chicago Press , remained intact and provided the con ...
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... Insull family , about 1866 Samuel Insull , about 1882 Edison's proxy Samuel Insull , about 1894 Gladys Wallis , about 1896 Byron L. Smith Edward L. Brewster Marshall Field Charles Merz Roger C. Sullivan Charles A. Munroe Three ...
... Insull family , about 1866 Samuel Insull , about 1882 Edison's proxy Samuel Insull , about 1894 Gladys Wallis , about 1896 Byron L. Smith Edward L. Brewster Marshall Field Charles Merz Roger C. Sullivan Charles A. Munroe Three ...
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... Insull in Europe FOLLOWING PAGE Samuel Insull , Jr. , 1925 Chicago Gold Coast , 1926 Insull caricatured , 1927 Insull and Stanley Field , 1929 " Insull's throne , " 1929 Gladys Insull as Lady Teazle Senator William B. McKinley Senator ...
... Insull in Europe FOLLOWING PAGE Samuel Insull , Jr. , 1925 Chicago Gold Coast , 1926 Insull caricatured , 1927 Insull and Stanley Field , 1929 " Insull's throne , " 1929 Gladys Insull as Lady Teazle Senator William B. McKinley Senator ...
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... Samuel Insull turned and spoke to his State Department guard.1 " Berry , " he said , " if two men had walked down Fifth Avenue a year ago " —that would have been May , 1933— " and one of them had a pint of whiskey in his pocket and the ...
... Samuel Insull turned and spoke to his State Department guard.1 " Berry , " he said , " if two men had walked down Fifth Avenue a year ago " —that would have been May , 1933— " and one of them had a pint of whiskey in his pocket and the ...
Contents
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Chicago | 55 |
Intimates | 74 |
The Big Shot | 102 |
Or The Short Happy Life of Samuel Insull | 133 |
The War | 162 |
191723 | 188 |
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Page v - I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill ; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
Page 2 - I have erred, but my greatest error was in underestimating the effect of the financial panic on American securities and particularly on the companies I was working so hard to build. I worked with all my energy to save those companies. I made mistakes, but they were honest mistakes. They were errors in judgment, but not dishonest...
Page 21 - I was naturally prepared to accept him as a hero. With my strict English ideas as to the class of clothes to be worn by a prominent man, there was nothing in Edison's dress to impress me. He wore a rather seedy black diagonal Prince Albert coat and waistcoat, with trousers of a dark material, and a white silk handkerchief around his neck, tied in a careless knot falling over the stiff bosom of a white shirt somewhat the worse for wear. He had a large wide-awake...
Page 23 - If he were exhausted he might more likely be asleep in the middle of the day than in the middle of the night, as most of his work in the way of inventions was done at night. I used to run his office...