Word: elbert
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Emil Fuchs,* 62, famed Austrian painter, sculptor and etcher of monarchs and geniuses; by suicide in his Manhattan studio. Artistic conqueror of four cities: Berlin, Rome, London, New York, he sculpted Wilhelm Hohenzollern; painted King Edward VII, Fritz Kreisler, Serge Rachmaninoff, Elbert H. Gary; designed the King Edward VII postage stamp of the British Empire. Recently he acquired internal cancer. He left a note to his sister: "I am already a burden to myself and my surroundings...
...Member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, Painter Salisbury has done the portraits of England's King, Queen and Archbishop of Canterbury. Many a U. S. Tycoon, including George F. Baker, the late great Elbert Gary, and Andrew Mellon, has sat for the Salisbury brush. The Coolidge portraits should be finished in another fortnight. President and Mrs. Coolidge have agreed to sit daily...
...quaintly press-shy. His fortune has come from public utilities, which he developed, not as a sportsman but as a shrewd businessman, and which may now exceed a round hundred millions. He lives at Glen Cove, Long Island, and in the Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, town house of the late Elbert H. Gary, which he purchased last spring...
Investors made yet another calculation. Even more significant than General Motors in the eyes of many a businessman are the reports of the mighty U. S. Steel Corp., now ending its first full year under committee management. As everyone knows, the mantle of the late, great Elbert H. Gary was rent into three parts. The first part fell on John Pierpont Morgan as Chairman of the Board; the second on Myron Charles Taylor as Chairman of the Finance Committee; the third on James Augustine Farrell as President. Last week, this triumvirate of tycoons announced quarterly earnings...
When Governor Byrd took over the State in 1926, there was a deficit of $1,368,000. This became a surplus of $2,596.181. Governor Elbert Lee Trinkle (1922-26) had opened the way for a gasoline tax, and for reorganization of the governmental machinery. So vigorously has Governor Byrd carried on these beginnings that a contemplated bond issue has been avoided and Virginia has been said to have a "Mussolini." In supporting the Smith candidacy against the assault of Bishop James Cannon Jr. and Virginia's dry bourgeoisie, he has demanded a vote of confidence in the Byrd record...