Word: elbert
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...company of noted men assembled by invitation at No. 71 Broadway, Manhattan, In the offices of Elbert H. Gary, Chairman of the U. S. Steel Corporation. Among their distinguished numbers were Richard Washburn Child, onetime (1921-24) Ambassador to Italy; George W. Wickersham, onetime (1909-13) U. S. Attorney General; W. H. Pouch, President of the National Association of Credit Men; William E. Knox, President of the American Bankers' Association; C. K. Woodbridge, President of the Associated Advertising Clubs of the World; Governor Silzer of New Jersey; Judge Ewing Cockrell of Missouri, one of the organizers of the Missouri Crime...
Number One. At 2.30 the previous afternoon, Judge Elbert H. Gary of the U. S. Steel Corporation invited a number of distinguished persons to attend a meeting at his office in Manhattan. The guests included Richard Washburn Child, onetime (1921-24) Ambassador to Italy; Franklin D. Roosevelt; Mark O. Prentiss; William E. Knox, President of the American Bankers' Association; William B. Joyce, Chairman of the National Surety Co.; Governor Smith of New York, Assemblyman F. Trubee Davison and others...
...towards whose source the white men were hacking their way,, stirred unearthly strains. "Debbils," groaned the natives. "Station KDKA, Pittsburgh," chortled the expedition's justly proud radio expert, John Swanson. A deep, pontifical voice broke the hot silence. "That," explained the man with the ear phones, "is Judge Elbert H. Gary, of the U. S. Steel Corporation...
...even takes time to tell a funny story when the plot begins to lag. Fiske O'Hara is his name. In this play, by De Witt Newing, he is not a poor Irish lad arriving in this country but a full blown business man. The notion of Elbert Gary suddenly holding up a conference of the Steel Corporation to sing about shamrocks is interesting but illogical. The Big Mogul is seldom interesting...
Although there are some 100,000 individual stockholders in the U. S. Steel Corporation, the company's annual meeting was attended, last week, by the usual corporal's guard of about 100. Judge Elbert H. Gary, in his remarks, particularly stressed the need for conservatism in the payment of dividends and the undesirability of distributing surplus under present conditions. Evidently, the stockholders have in some cases been disappointed in their treatment by the directors and have, been saying so. Judge Gary stated that the Company's surplus had reached $517,061,308, but that it was necessary...