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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... called a criminal , and the one with the gold an honest citizen . If these two men had , like Rip van Winkle , slept for a year and again walked down Fifth Avenue , the man with the whiskey would be called an honest citizen and the one ...
... called a criminal , and the one with the gold an honest citizen . If these two men had , like Rip van Winkle , slept for a year and again walked down Fifth Avenue , the man with the whiskey would be called an honest citizen and the one ...
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The Rise and Fall of a Billionaire Utility Tycoon Forrest McDonald. be called honest . Politics demand , therefore , that I be brought to trial ; but what is really being brought to trial is the system I repre- sented . " A Coast Guard ...
The Rise and Fall of a Billionaire Utility Tycoon Forrest McDonald. be called honest . Politics demand , therefore , that I be brought to trial ; but what is really being brought to trial is the system I repre- sented . " A Coast Guard ...
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... called across the ocean to such a job . But that he would grow to be- come America's most powerful businessman of the twenties and its most publicized business villain in the early thirties — was no more predictable than that his family ...
... called across the ocean to such a job . But that he would grow to be- come America's most powerful businessman of the twenties and its most publicized business villain in the early thirties — was no more predictable than that his family ...
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... called the link between P. T. Barnum and Madison Avenue.22 A little later — in November , 1878 — Insull was asked to address a weekly meeting of the literary society on the subject of self - help . At a loss for anything to say that the ...
... called the link between P. T. Barnum and Madison Avenue.22 A little later — in November , 1878 — Insull was asked to address a weekly meeting of the literary society on the subject of self - help . At a loss for anything to say that the ...
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... called him in for an interview . By this time , at the age of nineteen , Insull was the firm's chief shorthand clerk and general superintendent of clerical personnel . The boss reviewed Insull's four and a half years with the ...
... called him in for an interview . By this time , at the age of nineteen , Insull was the firm's chief shorthand clerk and general superintendent of clerical personnel . The boss reviewed Insull's four and a half years with the ...
Contents
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25 | |
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...