Nicholas Frederic Brady, 49, Chairman of the Brooklyn Edison Co., was in Rome last week. He had been in its vicinity for several weeks and expected to be there about a month longer. But in his offices at 80 Broadway, Manhattan, close to noon one day last week, were other directors of his $153,000,000 company which supplies without competition all the electric light and power that Brooklyn, a district of 2,250,000 people uses. Brooklyn Edison directors were agreed with Chairman Brady and his very important co-director John D. Ryan (of Anaconda Copper fame) that their company should sell out to...
Business & Finance: Twelfth Billionary
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