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 vii
... hand is against every man's . " You may remember 1933 , and the battle to ex- tradite Insull from Greece , a battle that shared the front pages with the New Deal and Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini and the Lind- bergh baby . You may ...
... hand is against every man's . " You may remember 1933 , and the battle to ex- tradite Insull from Greece , a battle that shared the front pages with the New Deal and Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini and the Lind- bergh baby . You may ...
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... hand . 3 From everywhere — from the tugs , from the cutter , seemingly even from the air and the sea — newspapermen and photographers swarmed onto the deck of the " Exilona . " To still the confusion , the old man barked a command at ...
... hand . 3 From everywhere — from the tugs , from the cutter , seemingly even from the air and the sea — newspapermen and photographers swarmed onto the deck of the " Exilona . " To still the confusion , the old man barked a command at ...
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... hands are the devil's workshop ; An honest man is the noblest work of God ; Time is money ) and its prohibitions ( Things are simply " done " or " not done " ; One reveres one's family ; One respects virtuous women and shuns the other ...
... hands are the devil's workshop ; An honest man is the noblest work of God ; Time is money ) and its prohibitions ( Things are simply " done " or " not done " ; One reveres one's family ; One respects virtuous women and shuns the other ...
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... hand in its creation . The ship arrived at dusk on the 28th of February.3 Johnson greeted Insull at the dock with the news that he was leaving for London at five the next morning . Insull's heart sank ; he had counted on Johnson , as ...
... hand in its creation . The ship arrived at dusk on the 28th of February.3 Johnson greeted Insull at the dock with the news that he was leaving for London at five the next morning . Insull's heart sank ; he had counted on Johnson , as ...
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... hand , as machines had been operated when the caveman first employed a fulcrum and lever ; a few were relatively modern , being operated by belts at- tached to steam engines , as they had been operated for the century that steam engines ...
... hand , as machines had been operated when the caveman first employed a fulcrum and lever ; a few were relatively modern , being operated by belts at- tached to steam engines , as they had been operated for the century that steam engines ...
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...