Word: elbert
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...townsman, the late President Harding. He was represented as having returned her devotion after she had grown up and he had become a U. S. Senator. He was said to have placed her in Manhattan with the U. S. Steel Corp. as a secretary, through his friend, the late Elbert H. Gary. The most intimate scenes, complete details and fulsome memories of a furtive union were related...
Since Judge Elbert H. Gary's death (TIME, Aug. 22) no one until last week had spoken as he did for the U. S. Steel Corp. He would rarely, except for politic reasons, let anyone else stand as spokeman for the corporation. Then came a meeting of the board of directors and potent finance committee, and there was melancholy necessity for a presiding officer for each. The duty, in both cases, fell to the corporation's president, practical Steelmaker James Augustine Farrell. His post-meeting statement, optimistic as most of Judge Gary's had been, was: ". . . Improvement...
Advice, often unwelcome, is sometimes valuable. Thus, alert newsreaders were last week glad to share the admonitions offered to widow, daughters, grandchildren, in the will of Elbert H. Gary, late U. S. Steel Corp. head...
Sirs: My husband subscribed to TIME because he considered me uninformed. Although it is less expensive, he did not think me in need of Elbert Hubbard's Scrapbook. I could discuss Nietzsche and Freud as superficially as the rest of our friends. But when the conversation turned to political and international affairs, I looked bored and blank. He implored me to read the newspapers. I did; I grinned at the comic strips, literally "glanced over the headlines," and imbibed the weather and theatrical reports. In despair, he gave me a subscription to TIME, which I read weekly with conscientious...
...Died. Elbert Henry Gary, 81, Board Chairman of the U. S. Steel Corporation; in Manhattan, of myocarditis (see below...