Business & Finance: Surprise

In response to crisp invitations from the New York Electrical League and the Electrical Board of Trade of New York, over 1,000 executives of electrical and public utility corporations sat down to luncheon in Manhattan last week and gazed about at one another expansively.

Great men are drawn to greater. As the luncheon got under way, many a potent executive's eye wandered to George Bruce Cortelyou, former Secretary of the Treasury (1907-09), President of the Consolidated Gas Co. of New York; and Owen Young,...

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