Word: elbert
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Directors, declared last week an extra dividend of 50c a share on the $508,302,500 common stock outstanding. This was in addition to the regular dividends of $1.25 a share of the junior issue and of $1.75 a share of the preferred. Thus 80-year-old Chairman Elbert Henry Gary's frequently repeated dictum that U. S. Steel common was a "7% stock" was reaffirmed. He remains as Chairman of the Board. Recently U. S. Steel has been climbing on the stock market because of rumors that a melon would...
Died. Domicio Da Gama, sometime Brazilian Foreign Minister, Ambassador to the U. S., and Ambassador to Great Britain; at Rio de Janeiro. He was married in 1912, at the Manhattan home of Judge Elbert H. Gary, to Mrs. Elizabeth Pell Hearn (widow of A. H. Hearn, dry goods) by famed Mayor Gaynor and Dr. Percy Stickney Grant, who performed respectively, the civil and religious ceremonies...
...however, Judge and Mrs. Elbert H. Gary will be remarked as newcomers. For years they have attended the Metropolitan's opening night in the Iselin box (15). Now they have purchased Box 19 from the estate of Harry C. Frick. At them steelworkers in the topmost gallery will proudly point...
...Entrants to New York University packed a Presbyterian Church to hear words from Elbert H. Gary, steel magnate and famed author of rules for a successful life. Business success was the burden of his message. Be agreeable, said he, approachable, popularize yourself and your business. "Adopt and apply the standards of propriety. . . . Honesty is best. . . . Abraham Lincoln. . . . Marshall Field. . . . J. Pierpont Morgan. . . . The average man likes to hear himself talk too much. It is well to let the other man talk half of the time...
Last week these harangued ones arranged a ceremony for their "Bishop," presented him with a flag, a Bible. Judge Elbert H. Gary shook his hand. Secretary of State Kellogg, Owen D. Young sent telegrams. Said Wilkinson: "Men of Wall Street and Minnesota, men like Mr. Gary and Mr. Morgan, street-sweepers and passersby, I thank you very kindly...