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 ix
... never heard of Max McGraw , but he is the shrewdest financial operator west of Cleveland and the power behind more companies than you can shake a stick at . Do you know Cyrus Eaton , he of the baby blue eyes and nerves of steel , he to ...
... never heard of Max McGraw , but he is the shrewdest financial operator west of Cleveland and the power behind more companies than you can shake a stick at . Do you know Cyrus Eaton , he of the baby blue eyes and nerves of steel , he to ...
Page xi
... never heard of anybody being so objective . Well , he asked for it " ; and then launched into a three - hour indictment of Insull . ) In reading the manuscript , he was extremely careful in checking factual data , and arranged for ...
... never heard of anybody being so objective . Well , he asked for it " ; and then launched into a three - hour indictment of Insull . ) In reading the manuscript , he was extremely careful in checking factual data , and arranged for ...
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... never seen before : " 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 . 2 Burton Y. Berry , " Mr ...
... never seen before : " 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 . 2 Burton Y. Berry , " Mr ...
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... Samuel Insull , Jr. Since I have had more than a hundred interviews with Mr. Insull , Jr. , no citations of specific dates of interviews with him will be offered here . status approaching comfort , but never gaining the thrust or.
... Samuel Insull , Jr. Since I have had more than a hundred interviews with Mr. Insull , Jr. , no citations of specific dates of interviews with him will be offered here . status approaching comfort , but never gaining the thrust or.
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... never gaining the thrust or having the good fortune necessary for a rise into the upper middle class . " On his mother's side , Insull was descended from artisans and farmers who had plodded their way through the centuries on the ...
... never gaining the thrust or having the good fortune necessary for a rise into the upper middle class . " On his mother's side , Insull was descended from artisans and farmers who had plodded their way through the centuries on 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...