America and Americans

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Excerpt from America and Americans: An Address by Edward Dean Adams to the Executive Staff and Employees of the All America Cables, Inc, at Their Annual Dinner, December 20, 1919, New York City We, of the staff of the All America Cables, who study the business of our organization and strive to promote its interests, appreciate the vision of its founder, James A. Scrymser, when he availed of his opportunity to extend his cable enterprise into the continent we now know to be the original America. In our plans of development by an increase of our territory of usefulness in the southern continent of this hemisphere, we realize that it is indeed a land of opportunity. By acquaintance with the history of its peoples we understand that we have not hitherto fully appreciated that they have a prior claim to the designation of America and Americans which we may have assumed, in part at least, for our own country and people. Attention is therefore invited to some of the circumstances that make the new and popular title, All America Cables, a fitting one for our Company. Discoveries made within the last 25 years have supplied some pages that were missing in the history of a period more than 400 years ago, and have changed opinions and corrected errors which had prevailed for several centuries, as to how the New World came to be called America. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.