Word: elbert
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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German-Jews outpeddled the Yankees, who turned storekeepers -Woolworths, Wanamakers. The canal, steamboat and railroad superseded wagoning. Religion grew organized, shutting out all but the most gorgeous spellbinders-Sundays and Sankeys, Moodies and McPhersons. Book peddlers had to learn the mass technique that flowered in Elbert Hubbard, Nelson Doubleday, E. Haldeman-Julius. All that remain of itinerant America are the scurrying hired droves who still "drum" everything from coal dust to white space; the glib "representatives" whose backslaps, hotel snoring and smoking-car anecdotes constitute an unmelodioua ground-buzz in the U. S. chorus...
...Judge Elbert Henry Gary permitted the Saturday Evening Post to print last week an interview concerning the late John Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), the man who had raised him, a reluctant Illinois lawyer, to head the United States Steel Corp. Said the Judge...
...have the President and Mrs. Coolidge sat down to dinner with so many bigwigs: British Ambassador Sir Esme Howard; Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon; Secretary of Commerce Herbert C. Hoover; Associate Justice Harlan F. Stone; Major General Charles P. Summerall (Chief of Staff) ; Governor Fisher of Pennsylvania; Elbert H. Gary of U. S. Steel; Charles M. Schwab of Bethlehem Steel; John D. Rockefeller Jr.; Henry Ford; Patrick E. Crowley of the New York Central; George Eastman, kodaks; Harvey S. Firestone, tires; Will H. Hays, cinemastar; John W. O'Leary, banker and president of the U. S. Chamber...
Five names have been added to the original list of nominees. Two more names raise the number of presidential candidates from three to five. Harry Hyman Cutter of Malden and Elbert Grant Manchester of Winsted, Connecticut, are the petitioned nominees...
Calvin Coolidge Elbert H. Gary...