Menu from a luncheon given in honor of Charles M. Schwab by the New York Chamber of Commerce, April 28, 1921, 4.5 x 6.75, signed in pencil on the cover “C. M. Schwab,” “Thos. A. Edison,” “E. Eurana Schwab,” and “D. P. Kingsley.” At the same event, according to a front-page story in the New York Times, Schwab recounted how he spurned a $100,000,000 offer from Germany (as well as a handsome British counter-offer) to break his contracts with Lord Kitchener for the production of munitions during World War I. On Edison’s death in 1931, Schwab remarked that “[I] was first associated with Mr. Edison forty years ago, on New Jersey iron ore extraction, and every year since then has added to my admiration of him as a genius without peer.” Accompanied by a copy of the article in question. Light soiling and toning, otherwise fine condition. R&R COA.
