Word: elbert
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...annual dinner of the American Iron and, Steel Institute, Judge Elbert Henry Gary declared that "in the Fall of 1917 or the Spring of 1918" a proposal was made by the Federal Government (through the War Industries Board, of which Bernard M. Baruch was Chairman) to take over the steel industry. He alleged that the proposal originated with Secretary of the Treasury W. G. McAdoo, and that vigorous protest by American steel men, including himself, had blocked the plan. Judge Gary stated that his wish, in making public this hitherto unpublished episode, was to make a permanent record...
...Harvard Clubs and one college class are represented among the other scholarships awarded at this time. Harold Greenleaf Phelps, of Grosse Pointe Park; Mich., a Freshman, received the Harvard Club of Michigan scholarship and Elbert Arthur Sanford '26, of Rochester, N. Y., the Rochester (N. Y.) Club scholarship. The class of 1867 scholarship goes to Benjamin Max Bank, a Freshman, whose home is Malden...
There was food. And Judge Elbert H. Gary, Chairman of the U. S. Steel Corporation, presided. Before the assemblage Mr. Davis set forth the plans which he has been maturing for three years...
...Minneapolis, Elbert L. Carpenter...
From Manhattan comes Harry Harkness Flagler, backer of the New York Symphony Orchestra (Mr. Mackay is of the New York Philharmonic) ; from Los Angeles, W. A. Clark, Jr.; from Minneapolis, Elbert L. Carpenter; from Chicago, Charles H. Hamill; from Detroit, William H. Murphy; from Cincinnati, Mrs. Charles P. Taft; from Cleveland, Mrs. John L. Severance; from Rochester, home of the youngest of all big orchestras, George Eastman; from Philadelphia, Alexander van Rensselaer, acting for Edward W. Bok; from Boston, Judge Frederick P. Cabot, the successor of Major Lee Higginson. With them will come 13 business managers...