Guglielmo Marconi, Irish-Italian wireless inventor, financier, deftly subdued last week's meeting of petulant stockholders in his Marconi Wireless Telegraph Co. Ltd. The meeting took place in the spacious assembly hall of Connaught Rooms, in London's West End. Signor Marconi presided as chairman of the board of directors.
"I do not dare to publish the facts I have got of the colossal mismanagement of this company," shouted one Charles L. Norden. He referred, of course, to the old scandals of British politicians jobbing Marconi Wireless stock for their own as well as Government profit. The...
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