Sympathies among many politically and culturally influential Americans had favored the British cause from the start of the war, as typified by industrialist Samuel Insull, born in London, who helped young Americans enlist in British or Canadian forces.

Samuel Insull was born in London, the son of Samuel Insull, a tradesman and lay preacher who was active in the Temperance movement, and Emma Short.

Smith collected donations from several wealthy executives who ran public utilities, including $ 125, 000 from Samuel Insull.

* Samuel Insull, former utilities magnate who had fled the United States to avoid charges of swindling investors, was successful in avoiding extradition from Greece.

By 1927, Chicago investor Samuel Insull had taken serious interest in both stations.

He had a brother Martin Insull.

By 1897, Insull had worked out his formulas enough to offer Chicago electric customers two-tiered electric rates.

Samuel Insull also had interests in broadcasting.

In Illinois, Insull had long battled with Harold L. Ickes over concerns that Insull was exploiting his customers.

Upon the promotion of Ickes to Interior Secretary in 1933, Insull had a powerful foe in the Roosevelt administration.

According to The New York Times, Mr. and Mrs. Insull had arrived in Paris to see the Bastille Day festivities.

Insull suffered from a heart ailment, and his wife Gladys had asked him not to take the Métro because it was bad for his heart.

Nevertheless, Insull had made frequent declarations that he was " now a poor man " and descended a long flight of stairs at the Place de la Concorde station and died of a heart attack just as he stepped toward the ticket taker ; he had 30 francs ( eighty four cents ) in his pocket at the time and was identified by a hotel laundry bill in his pocket.

By 1927, Chicago financial magnate Samuel Insull had become interested in both WBCN and WENR.

One of Edison's associates, Samuel Insull, had however been retained as the second vice-president of General Electric, and was subsequently offered the presidency of the company.

Insull and his corporate interests had already taken over and improved the properties of the North Shore and South Shore Lines.

The founder of the Mt Rochfort Lodge No 29 was Bro. James Henry Insull whom emigrated to New Zealand from Abertillery South Wales in 1923-24.

Samuel Insull, the founder of Commonwealth Edison helped develop the coal fields along with Francis Peabody and his Illinois Midland Coal Company.

Pioneers of central station generation include George Westinghouse and Samuel Insull in the United States, Ferranti and Charles Hesterman Merz in UK, and many others.

While its original capacity of 6, 400 kilowatts, twice that of the Adams Street Station and the largest in the United States, seemed wildly optimistic when it opened in August, 1894, Insull believed that the economy of scale provided by such a large station would offset the initial cost.

The investor's fortune began dwindling by 1931 ; Insull then sold the licenses of both stations to National Broadcasting Company.

At the time the US entered World War I, Insull was named head of the Illinois Defense Council by President Woodrow Wilson ; his efforts sold over a million dollars of War Bonds.

He participated in the 1934 prosecution of Samuel Insull, the 1935 income tax case against Andrew Mellon, and the 1937 anti-trust case against Alcoa, in which the Mellon family held an important interest.

Chicago utility magnate Samuel Insull acquired a controlling interest in the railroad and served as its chairman.

With the collapse of his utilities empire, Insull was forced to sell his interest in the CA & E, and the railroad was once again bankrupt by 1932.

The Chicago businessman Samuel Insull reorganized the line as the Chicago, South Shore & South Bend ( today's South Shore Line ) in 1925, upgrading the stations and encouraging tourism.

Insull purchased both stations, paying $ 1 million for WENR alone.

Insull moved his stations first into Chicago's Strauss Building, and then to his own Civic Opera House.

Construction of the then-named George W. Hamilton Dam was started in 1931 by a company controlled by Samuel Insull, but soon ended with the dam less than half completed when his highly leveraged public utility holding company collapsed during the Great Depression.

Examples of well-known business magnates include Sir Richard Branson of Virgin Group, utility and transportation magnate Samuel Insull, newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst of the Hearst Corporation, oil magnate John D. Rockefeller of Standard Oil, steel magnate Andrew Carnegie, automobile magnate Henry Ford, Lakshmi Mittal of Arcelor Mittal, poultry magnate Frank Perdue of Perdue Farms, shipping magnate Charles T. Hinde, automobile magnate Ferdinand Piëch of Volkswagen Group, telecommunications magnate Carlos Slim, and sports entertainment magnate Vince McMahon of WWE.

Samuel Insull ( November 11, 1859 – July 16, 1938 ) was a British-born American business magnate whose vast Midwest holding company empire collapsed in the 1930s.

Insull was notable for purchasing utilities and railroads using holding companies, as well as the abuse of them.

When he learned of a job with Edison in the US, Insull indicated he would be glad to have it, provided it was as Thomas Edison's personal secretary.

In 1881, at the age of 21, Insull emigrated to the US, complete with side whiskers to make him appear older than his years.

In the decade that followed, Insull took on increasing responsibilities in Edison's business endeavors, building electrical power stations throughout the US.

Insull rose to become vice-president of General Electric, but was unhappy at not being named its president.

When the presidency went to someone else, Insull moved to Chicago as head of the Chicago Edison Company.

Samuel Insull, President of the Commonwealth Edison Co. ( Electrical Review, Volume 56-pub.

He knew who was riding after him -- the men he had known all his life, the men who had worked for him, sworn their loyalty to him.

It was, I felt, possible that they were men who, having received no tickets for that day, had remained in the hall, to sleep perhaps, in the corners farthest removed from the counter with its overhead light.

He had been one of the original Night Riders, one who had escaped the trial.

She had offered to walk, but Pamela knew she would not feel comfortable about her child until she had personally confided her to the care of the little pink woman who chose to be called `` Auntie ''.

Facing the forest now, she who had not dared to enter it before, walked between two trees at random and headed in what she believed was the direction of the pool.

He, McBride, would be cited as in the wrong, and he, Lord, would go scot-free, an officer who had only done his duty, though perhaps too energetically.

Those who had slickers donned them.

They trailed him across the wide hallway to the parlor, four roughly garbed and tough-looking men who probably had never before ventured into such a house.

For men who had left cattle alone after getting their first notices had received no second.

But the day of the deadline came and passed, and the men who had scoffed at the warnings laughed with satisfaction.

Lewis was a man who had made a full-time job of cow stealing.

For less than a dozen miles from the unplowed land of the dead man lived another settler who had ignored the warnings that his existence might be foreclosed on -- a blatant and defiant rustler named Fred Powell.

But to the cattlemen who had been facing bankruptcy from rustling losses and to the cowboys who had been faced with lay-offs a few years earlier, he was becoming a vastly different type of legendary figure.

Dan asked Hez, who had limped back from his team to hold the notched-stick chair braces in place while his boys swung up the tailgate and tied it tight at the ends.

Present at the scene -- in addition to the dead man, who was indeed Louis Thor -- had been Thor's partner Bill Blake, and Antony Rose, an advertising agency executive who handled the zing account.